208833 - Sort address completion list by most recent use

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 67055

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[Steven Grimm]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20030507
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20030507

The list of addresses that appears when I start to enter an address in the
compose window is always sorted by name, which means if I have a lot of
addresses that start with the same few letters (e.g. "mike") I either have to
type in most of the address by hand or scroll to the middle of a long list of
names. It would be great if the addresses I used most often, or most recently,
would appear at the top of the list. Something like, addresses I've used in the
last N days at the top in descending order of last use, and the rest under that
in alphabetical order. (If the recent ones are duplicated in the alphabetical
list, that's fine.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Jason M. Abels]

A jolly good suggestion. Is it possible?

Comment 2

[Carsten Burstedde]

It would also be great if a time interval could be set in preferences after
which unused email adresses drop out of the mail completion list.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

*** Bug 191759 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[OstGote!]

fixed for Thunderbird, see Bug 276632

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 67055 ***