672084 - Email search by address book index search

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 328199

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0
Build ID: 20110615151330

Steps to reproduce:

I tried to find an email by entering an index code I created in my address book.


Actual results:

Thurnderbird V5 could not find it, which I could before.


Expected results:

As I correspond internationally and many companies and people and it's difficult to remember so many people's names, I devised a coding scheme to find them.  For instance, by creating "us(country)_sfo(San Francisco)_abc(company name)> [1st name] [last name]", I could bring up a list of parties on San Francisco by entering "_sfo" even if I forgot the company name "abc" or the person's name, so I can go through the list to remember it.
Thanks.
I could search and retrieve any names by this scheme before Version 5, but now I cannot.
This may not be considered a BUG, but making something that worked before not work now is not a good upgrading policy.
I sincerely hope you put this capability back.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

In which field did you put this "index"?

And does bug 328199 cover your issue?