279640 - resort order of completion menu of 'To' field.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 276632

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[plop]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050110 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0+dfsg.1-2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050110 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0+dfsg.1-2)

when entering an address in the 'To' field of a compose window, a menu appears
to compleet it faster; it looksto me like this menu just pick out the emails in
the address book as is; I d expect TB to sort them in some order.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
I d expect TB to sort emails, for example putting first the email of ppl I most
wrote two for the last 4 weeks ...

maybe I have a far far far away aunt called abcdmmm, and a very cool girl friend
called adcbnnnn I write every day ... why should TB put my girl friend always
after that aunt I dont mind about ? Cant TB understand that if I write my gf
everyday, there is a higher probability I write her tomorrow than that aunt ???

just keep a track of recent pppl I mailed for a given time ( tasts can change),
and resort that menu with those datas.

I tell about aunt and gf, but it could be the same with resailers, boss,
custoremrs, wife, or even my local baker :)

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[plop]

lets tell the bot I still want this feature ...

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

in 1.5beta 2, we sort by frequency of use, so the addresses you send to more
often will be higher in the list

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 276632 ***

Comment 4

[plop]

(In reply to comment #3)
> in 1.5beta 2, we sort by frequency of use, so the addresses you send to more
> often will be higher in the list
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 276632 ***

note that I used to mail a friend about 400 to 500 times in 6 months, 2 years
ago, and no more now.

What happens if I write to people let say once a week for 1 year from now ?

that far less than the 500 for the first one; still, I expect to get the latter
address ...

volum reflects frequency, you you should average that only on ... let say the
last 6 onths ...

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

yes, I know. We talked about that issue but decided that what we have now is a
lot better than what we had before. It came down to a choice of either doing
nothing for 1.5, or doing what we did.

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

David, should I file a new bug for the timing issue? It sounds reasonable for me because we cannot force the user to recreate the affected address book card.

Comment 7

[David :Bienvenu]

Henrik, you can file an RFE, and mark it help wanted. Perhaps someone will come up with some improvements.