67055 - Autocompletion List for Recipients should be sorted by most frequently used

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 276632

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[Peter Lairo]

Autocompletion List for Recipients should be sorted by most frequently used

When typing in an address in the "To:" field and several potential recipients
are presented; the list should be sorted by the most recently used first. This
is the desirable solution since most people tend to send mail to the same people
frequently. As an alternative, the list should be sorted by display name.

The current method soeems to be sorted by Address book and then whatever - if it
is even sorted at all. This is not good.

Comment 1

[Fabian Guisset]

bug 64662 says that sorting will be done in an alphabetical order.. I suggest
you argue on that bug

Comment 2

[Peter Lairo]

ok, went to other bug to duke it out :-)

Comment 3

[scottputterman]

marking this bug nsbeta1-

Comment 4

[Andrew Taylor]

bug 65201 says the @defaultdomain autocompletion should be the last item.  Does
this bug override it or does it still make sense?  I've created a patch for
65201, but now I'm wondering if this one will clobber it.

Comment 5

[Ben Ruppel]

This would save me a lot of trouble.  Perhaps it would make sense if it sorted
by most recently used instead.  

If I used to email somebody a lot, and don't any more, I would have to "build
up" another recipient on the list to get him/her to the top.  So even if I've
been sending email after email to somebody tonight, their name is still not on
top and I still have to keep scrolling down to get to them.  This would make
sorting by most recent seem more valuable.

Comment 6

[Peter Lairo]

The bigger our addressbooks get (the more "John Doe's" we add), the more
annoying this bug becomes. It's a pain to have to scroll further and further
down the autocompletion list just to send to the same person every day.

nsenterprise - because companies tend to have very large addressbooks, but the
employees usually send to the same colleagues all the time - thus potentially
forcing them to scroll-scroll-scroll.

Comment 7

[Michael Buckland]

Discussed in Mail News bug mtg with Engineering QA and PjM.  Decided to minus
this bug.

Comment 8

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78270 ***

Comment 9

[Jesse Ruderman]

Oops, missed that this is a mail bug.  Bug 78270 is the equivalent bug for the
browser's URL bar.

Comment 10

[Mathieu Barquin]

The list should be sorted from the most recently used (as an option)

Comment 11

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 155585 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 164684 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 291762 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This has been fixed for Thunderbird (bug 276632).

Comment 15

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

With testing, it appears the fix is part of Seamonkey 1.0.  Peter Lairo, please verify this, and dupe to bug 276632 if you agree.

Comment 16

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 208833 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***