201511 - Autocomplete now puts Collected Addresses before Personal Address Book

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 158728

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, defect)

Description

[Ray Trent]

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Something changed recently (within the last several weeks) with the order of
addresses during autocompletion. 

I'm now getting addresses that only appear in my Collected Addresses mailbox
listed first.

It only seems to happen if the collected addresses have realnames in addition to
email addresses (e.g. Test 2 <[e-mail]>)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create Personal Address Book entry for: "Test 1 <[e-mail]>"
2. Send email to "Test 2 <[e-mail]>" and "Test 3 <[e-mail]>" and
verifiy that they went into Collected Addresses.
3. Compose an email and type "test" into the To field.

Note: the email addresses might need to actually exist for this to work. I used
test addresses at work that I'd rather not list here. I.e. the above are not
actual examples, but are respresentative of actual examples.
Actual Results:  
Autocompletion suggests: "Test 2 <[e-mail]>" followed by "Test 3
<[e-mail]>" and then "Test 1 <[e-mail]>".

Expected Results:  
"Test 1" should appear first.

My impression is that this happened about the same time as the fix for bug
#54035 that caused the Ctrl-Enter failure (bug 198976). Also, the flavor of it
is similar to the root cause there (events firing in the wrong order).

This is very similar to bug 158728, but it is different in that this only
started happening recently, and also that bug is talking about yet a third
address book being used after Collected Addresses, but still reports Collected
Addresses as being shown *after* the Personal Address Book. 

I have lost several emails that have gone to the wrong address because I didn't
notice this for quite some time (in fact, they went to my wife's cell phone SMS
rather than her email address, which was *really* annoying). However, I'm
sympathetic if someone doesn't consider this real dataloss and wants to reduce
the severity to Major.

Comment 1

[Ray Trent]

Moving to address book instead of composition.

Comment 2

[Joe Infla]

Confirming.  This effect occurred independent of the order addresses were
entered in Address Book, and also independent of the selection in Prefs -
MailNews - Addressing - "Add email addresses to my: (selected book)."

Collected Addresses entries were listed before Personal Address Book entries,
which were listed before  other addressbooks' entries.  Alphabetical name of the
addressbooks doesn't seem to matter either.

Comment 3

[Calum Mackay]

confirmed: linux/x86 20030818. I have Personal, Collected and LDAP; Collected is
always listed first.

Comment 4

[Calum Mackay]

*** Bug 216457 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I think that this is in fact a dupe of bug 158728, despite the "differences" 
noted in the original report.  I think that there is in fact no certain order 
that these names are displayed in, and it's at least partially dependent on the 
order in which names were added to the book.  See my comment in the referenced 
bug.
Ray Trent, if you think I'm on the right track here, please mark this bug as a 
duplicate.

Comment 6

[Ray Trent]

Marking as duplicate per comment 5. While I think the root cause might be
different (since it started happening long after bug 158728), the effect is the
same. 

Also, I haven't had this problem as egregiously in a while, so I'm guessing it
was  something somewhat subtle that probably morphed back over time...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 158728 ***