Select (only some) address books for auto-completion
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(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)
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(Reporter: thoste, Unassigned)
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Steps to reproduce:
On my Thunderbird I have approx 1500 contacts (email addresses) stored in 9 address books. 2 of the address books contain only old, outdated email addresses which I keep as a reminder resp as a historical repository list.
Now I have people with multiple email addresses spread over multiple address books. For simplicity lets say contact "Stuart MIller" has a current email address in one of the 7 valid address book and 3 outdated in one of the two old address books.
Now I start composing a new message and start typing "Stuart Miller" in "TO:" entry field.
Thunderbird offers me for auto-completion 4 email addresses.
How should I know/remember which one is the current, valid email address?
I need my brain capacity for other things.
Expected results:
Thunderbird should offer an option to exclude some address books as auto-completion source. Alternatively Thunderbird could offer an option to include
some Address books as source for auto-completion.
In the past there was a good AddOn "MoreFunctionsForAddressBook" which offers such a function. Unfortunately this Addon was for old Legacy Api only.
The AddOn provided the selection even on a per-account base. this is not necessary. A global Include/exclude of some (but not all) address books would be sufficient.
This address book function should be added to next Thunderbird version.
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Updated•5 years ago
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Comment 2•5 years ago
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Ok, originally its TB v68.
But the same missing feature applies to newest TB (v78ff)
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Comment 3•5 years ago
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You can do this with the config editor (although it would be nice if there was a better way). Find your address book under ldap_2.servers. and set ldap_2.servers.[whatever].enable_autocomplete to false.
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Comment 4•5 years ago
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Hi Thomas Stein,
you're quite right, as we've been having Thunderbird for almost two decades, archiving/obsoleting address books, accounts etc. becomes more pertinent. Unfortunately, I don't think anyone has the free cycles for this enhancement atm, and user interest hasn't been big afasics.
I have just tested the workaround recommended by Geoff and it works perfectly.
(In reply to Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan) from comment #3)
You can do this with the config editor (although it would be nice if there was a better way). Find your address book under
ldap_2.servers.and setldap_2.servers.[whatever].enable_autocompleteto false.
Well, you have to create that pref in the first place...
- ≡ > Options > Find in Options > about:config
- Right-click in config editor > New > Boolean
- Enter preference name:
ldap_2.servers.TestAB.enable_autocomplete(if the name of your AB is "TestAB") - Enter boolean value: choose
false
==> TestAB will no longer be used for auto-completion
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Comment 5•5 years ago
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In terms of bug management, this is a duplicate of bug 220370 (global setting) or bug 372443 (per-account/per-identity setting).
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Comment 6•5 years ago
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Added the preference to enterprise documentation:
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Comment 7•5 years ago
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Hi Geoff & Thomas,
thank you for this workaround.
I just tried it and it seems to work.
I can personally live with it. But most possible there are other users who struggle with the same problem.
The solution is deeply hidden and nested.
So a more convenient GUI-based option is still recommeneded.
Thank you so far.
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