550144 - Link addressbook and autocompletion

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 118665

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Boudry Vincent]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; fr; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; fr; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104

Auto-completion of the address sometimes is strangely linked to the addressbook.
As an example for some addresses, typing the initials of a contact (supposedly linking to the surname) gives addresses of the like: FirstName <"First.Last"@domain, last@domain>, this is related to reformated alternative addresses, put first in the selection.
It would otherwise be nice to have in the addressbook a search filed mimicking the autocompletion and giving access to the selected contact.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a contact for First Last <[e-mail]> with alternative addresses [e-mail], [e-mail] and surname FL
2. In a new mail window type FL as address

Actual Results:  
The auto-completion will propose, in that order
 - First Last <"First.Last"@alt.domain.org, [e-mail]>
 - First Last <[e-mail]>

Expected Results:  
Auto-completion in the order:
 - First Last <[e-mail]>
 - First Last <[e-mail]>
 - First Last <[e-mail]>

 - search for surname in the addressbook would help too.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; fr; rv:1.9.2)
> Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; fr; rv:1.8)
> Gecko/20051025 Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104

Are you really using Thunderbird 1.5? If so, then sorry but we no longer support Thunderbird 1.5, please upgrade to Thunderbird 2 or Thunderbird 3.

If that's not the case, have you tried ensuring there are no trailing spaces in the email address fields in the contact?

Comment 2

[Boudry Vincent]

No I am using TB 3.0.3.
I had an old pref remaining in my prefs.js
It should be 
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; fr-FR; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.3

I have tried removing any blanks in the address fields, and it hasn't changed anything.

Comment 3

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

How do you have 3 mail addresses for a contact? Thunderbird address books only support two addresses.

Comment 4

[Boudry Vincent]

Until now (TB2), I had no trouble giving as alternate address a list of addresses separated by commas.
Maybe this is not correct but then it would be a feature to be added.

Comment 5

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

I just tried on an old TB2 install (2.0.0.23) and it does the same thing in both, except that the alternate "addresses" appear first in TB3. But that's bug 543088.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

>Maybe this is not correct
indeed, the field name is "Additional email", not "Additional emails"

I see what jim sees, so I don't see how this could have "worked" in v2.  What you in effect want is >2 email addresses, which is Bug 118665 - Allow multiple email addresses / phone & fax numbers / URLs per card