265735 - First/random match selection of destination e-mail address based on first letters in name

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

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

Description

[MZ]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

When writing a new mail and typing in the To: address for a receiver, then the
mail application just usese the first/random name from the address book that
matches, without prompting if there are several possible matches. 

This makes it very easy to send a mail to the wrong person, if you are not very
carefull to check which person was selected by the mail program when the first
letters were typed in.

I remember an old Netscape version, maybe back in the rev. 4 days where it
prompted for the receiver if there were several matches.

I think it would be very good if you could add this feature again, maybe as an
option, in case some users would not like this behavior.

Best regards,
Morten


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

If i type in here for example "a", i get a popup with all adresses than begin
with a or where the name begins with a. Isn't this what you want?

Comment 2

[MZ]

I should have mentioned that I know that feature. 

Might be that I am a little to fast some times when writing e-mails, but the
current system have made me send mails to the wrong receiver, which can be a
disaster. 

I appreciated the old Netscape system where you were prompted to select a
specific receiver in case there were several matches. In the current system the
first match is some kind of random default.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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