530865 - Autocomplete disregards Nickname field in address book

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 325458

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Composition, defect)

Description

[I.R.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091017 SeaMonkey/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091017 SeaMonkey/2.0

When addressing an email the autocomplete feature does not give priority to the "Nickname" field from the Address Book.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a contact with Nickname: x Email: [e-mail]
2. Create a contact with Email: [e-mail]
3. Compose a new email message.
4. Enter a lower-case 'x' in the "To:" field.
Actual Results:  
Autocomplete will suggest the contact with no Nickname configured.

Expected Results:  
Autocomplete should give a higher priority to any contact with a Nickname field that is an exact match for the input.

Verified on a fresh SeaMonkey profile.