1962868 - contact not found if dot (period) character phone using "Advanced Address Book Search"

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Francewhoa (Francois Carpentier)]

Attachment: Step-1---Create_Contact---Screenshot-1461.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Using Thunderbird/Betterbird, using its Address Book, add a new contact. Including four (4) cell/mobile phone numbers for this same user. To be able to reproduce this challenge, it is important to include at least one dot into the first phone number. For example:

• Mobile 1: 111.456.2222

• Mobile 2: [phone]

• Mobile 3: 333-456-2222

• Mobile 4: 4444562222

The attached screenshot "Step-1---Create_Contact---Screenshot-1461.png" shows this step

2. Using "Advanced Address Book Search" search for Mobile 4: 4444562222 Not result are return. This is the challenge.

The attached screenshot "Step-2---Advanced_Search---Failed---Screenshot-1462.png" shows this step

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Details

Below is the same as above. But with details for those interested.

The needed end result is, using "Advanced Address Book Search", I need to search all phone numbers for all contacts. Not just the first phone number per contact. Most of my contacts have multiple phone numbers of the same type. For example Mobiles. Maybe my original question was not clear about this.

I have multiple address books. Some local. Some remote. Some I own and can control the formatting of phone number. I mean with or without dot. The challenge is some address book I have no control over. I do not need any. Because they are maintained by people who have different comfort zones. I culture thing. I encourage them to format their phone number in any ways to their liking. While at the same time, I need to search all of the above. Regardless if they include dot or not. The dot(s) is very popular in Canada west coast and central area. Dash are more frequent in Canada est. Same worldwide with other regions and local formats. To each their own preference.

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Using this on device 1

• Betterbird/Thunderbird 128.9.2esr-bb25 (64-bit) from Arch Linux repository

• Arch Linux latest version

• KDE Plasma latest version

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Using this on device 2

• Betterbird/Thunderbird 128.9.2esr-bb25 (64-bit) from https://flathub.org/apps/eu.betterbird.Betterbird

• Debian Bookworm 12

• GNOME 43.9

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Temporary workaround

This CardBook add-on at https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/cardbook/ CardBook is able to, very quickly and easily, search all contacts' phone numbers. Including any phone number text formatting. For example:

Mobile 1: 111.456.2222

Mobile 2: [phone]

Mobile 3: 333-456-2222

Mobile 4: 4444562222

In this example above, using CardBook, when I searched for 4444562222. I get a successful result(s). Joy. This is the needed end result. But with Thunderbird's built-in Address Book.

Actual results:

Not result are return. This is the challenge.

The attached screenshot "Step-2---Advanced_Search---Failed---Screenshot-1462.png" shows this step

This challenge was confirmed by sfhowes. Which is one of the valued top 10 contributors at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1508251#answer-1728376

Related comment at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1508251#answer-1728385

Expected results:

The needed end result is, using "Advanced Address Book Search", I need to search all phone numbers for all contacts. Not just the first phone number per contact. Most of my contacts have multiple phone numbers of the same type. For example Mobiles. Maybe my original question was not clear about this.

I have multiple address books. Some local. Other remote. Sometimes I own and can control the formatting of phone numbers. I mean with or without dot. The challenge is some address books I have no control over. I do not need any. Because they are maintained by people who have different comfort zones. I culture thing. I encourage them to format their phone number in any ways to their liking. While at the same time, I need to search all of the above. Regardless if they include dot or not. The dot(s) is very popular in Canada west coast and central area. Dash are more frequent in Canada est. Same worldwide with other regions and local formats. To each their own preference.

Comment 1

[Francewhoa (Francois Carpentier)]

Attachment: Step-2---Advanced_Search---Failed---Screenshot-1462.png

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

perhaps a good first bug?

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Not quite. I can take it.

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Attachment: Bug 1962868 - contact not found if dot (period) character phone using "Advanced Address Book Search". r=#thunderbird-reviewers

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/eb32710132eb
contact not found if dot (period) character phone using "Advanced Address Book Search". r=aleca

Comment 6

[Francewhoa (Francois Carpentier)]

Thanks @alessandro, @mkmelin, and @wsmwk for resolving this challenge 💚. I look forward to testing it in a future release.