247089 - Use better algorithm when completing addresses from collected addresses

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Laurent Duperval]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040415 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040415 Firefox/0.8

Hello,

I've set TB (0.6) to collect addresses when I send a message. This creates an
annoyance when address completion takes information from the collected
addresses. I would like TB to be more intelligent about the first email address
to show.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
For example, if I send a subscription request to a mailing list, I will send it
like this:

To: [e-mail]

I get a reply to which I must respond in order to be added to the list so I
reply to the same address.

Now, whenever I want to send messages to the list I must send them to 

[e-mail]


Actual Results:  
When I type the start of the email address, the first one to show is always
[e-mail]. I can understand why it does that the first time,
but I would like [e-mail] to appear first after a while.



Expected Results:  
TB should realise that I'm using [e-mail] more often than
[e-mail]. It should then do the completion of list@ before
that of list-request@

Comment 1

[Bogdan Stroe]

I couldn't find a duplicate, so marking as NEW.
Similar bug for address bar is bug 182366.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

this has since been changed to complete based on frequency of use (although it's broke in version 3)