745730 - when adding contacts, should be smart about what is first and last name

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 218827

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[u93378]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0
Build ID: 20120312181643

Steps to reproduce:

Added to my address book an address from a large organization that gives namestrings as "Bar, Foo" for someone named "Foo Bar."


Actual results:

I get a contact with name "Bar, Foo"


Expected results:

Ideally, Thunderbird should notice this pattern and offer to make a contact with the namestring "Foo Bar"

Comment 1

[u93378]

Very large organizations, including the U.S. government, seem to think it's necessary to reverse the names of senders, and I have also seen this pattern

Bar, Foo (branch of company)

Thunderbird will add these in their original forms to the contact book.  It would be a great enhancement if TB noticed the commas and offered to do some fixup.

Comment 2

[Hashem Masoud]

(In reply to Robert Goldman from comment #0)
Did you use the import tool? or add them one-by-one?

Comment 3

[u93378]

(In reply to Hashem Masoud from comment #2)
> (In reply to Robert Goldman from comment #0)
> Did you use the import tool? or add them one-by-one?

I am adding them one-by-one --- capturing the addresses from emails I receive.

I know that this format of address is wrong, but it seems impossible to stamp it out.

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

We might also look at the email address to make the guess. From what i've seen first.last@ is the norm even when real name is reversed (which sure is annoying!).

Comment 5

[Hashem Masoud]

(In reply to Magnus Melin from comment #4)

Magnus; is not this a duplicate of bug 218827 ?