214414 - "Add to Address Book" should make an attempt to parse the name into the Last Name/First Name fields

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 40046

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[Dave Evans]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4; MultiZilla v1.4.0.4A) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1 (20030723)

"Add to Address Book" should make an attempt to parse the name into the Last
Name/First Name fields

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.View a message
2.Right click on an email address
3.click on "Add to Address Book"


Actual Results:  
The email address is placed into the appropriate field
The associated name is put in the "Display" field
No other information is parsed from the email address

Expected Results:  
"Bob Jones" <[e-mail]> should parse into:
- First Name: Bob
- Last Name: Jones
- Display: Bob Jones
- Email Address: [e-mail]

"Jones, Bob" <[e-mail]> should parse into:
- First Name: Bob
- Last Name: Jones
- Display: Bob Jones
- Email Address: [e-mail]

Comment 1

[Ronald Killmer]

This would be a nice enhancement.  The old NC 4.7x had this ability, though it
was not bullet proof.  It had a buggy way of putting first and last name
combined into either or both the first and last name fields on occasion.

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

Isn't this a duplicate of bug 40046?

I'd like to see this done too, but it seems that no work has been done on that
bug for quite some time.

Comment 3

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Isn't this a duplicate of bug 40046?
>
Yes

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40046 ***

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

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