775331 - Mail address auto-complete doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 558931

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Ulf Zibis]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
Build ID: 20120713134347

Steps to reproduce:

Typed "Ju" in mail address field.




Actual results:

Some addresses containing "Ju" appear in the opened list, but not all.
Only typing "Te" lets following address appear in the list:
"Dr. Judith Test" <[e-mail]>


Expected results:

Also following mail address should appear in the list:
"Dr. Judith Test" <[e-mail]>

Comment 1

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Hi Ulf,

thanks for being active in the TB community, now more needed than ever as Mozilla are on their way out of TB...

How to find the duplicate of this bug using bmo quicksearch:

Necessary keywords in bug *summary*:
- autocomplete, auto-complete, autocompletion, or auto-completion
- address
- not, doesn't, or missing (as in not found, not working, doesn't find, missing results, etc.)

=> BMO Quicksearch for:
:thun,mail su:auto su:complet su:address su:not,doesn't,missing

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=%3Athun%2Cmail%20su%3Aauto%20su%3Acomplet%20su%3Aaddress%20su%3Anot%2Cdoesn%27t%2Cmissing

11 results, among which:
Bug 558931 - Autocomplete does not show all matching address book entries (implement partial/substring matching for each of multiple search words)

Check out the AB card of your AB entry for Judith:
I bet you have: "Dr. Judith" as Vorname, and "Test" as Nachname.
TB isn't smart enough yet to find that when you search for "Judith", because only matches for the beginning of each field are found (bug 558931).

Comment 2

[Ulf Zibis]

(In reply to Thomas D. from comment #1)
> thanks for being active in the TB community, now more needed than ever as
> Mozilla are on their way out of TB...

Oops, would TB die? Would Seamonkey as alternative still be supported from Mozilla? Unfortunately it is difficult to find out the difference/(dis)advantage between Seamonkey and Firefox + Thunderbird.

> How to find the duplicate of this bug using bmo quicksearch:

Well, after typing my summary line I always check the proposed matches, but in this case there was non which matched to my problem. Sorry.

> Check out the AB card of your AB entry for Judith:
> I bet you have: "Dr. Judith" as Vorname, and "Test" as Nachname.

In personal address book I have only "Dr. Judith Test" as Anzeigename, the other fields are blank. So I was wondering, why "Test" succeeded.
Now at a 2nd look I found a duplicate in collected addresses with "Dr. Judith" as Vorname, "Test" as Nachname and "Dr. Judith Test" as Anzeigename. This may explain, why "Test" was successful. Additionally there is no success for "abc" to find <[e-mail]>. Matches for "info" don't help, as there are too much.
Unfortunately there is no separate field for the title "Dr."

> TB isn't smart enough yet to find that when you search for "Judith", because
> only matches for the beginning of each field are found (bug 558931).

Maybe the smart solution would be, if TB would search for each word separated by blank, '@', '-'. '_', or '.' in those fields.

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Read this for some insight of the future of TB http://sietch-tabr.tumblr.com/post/26700299043/thunderbirds-future-from-the-inside