Closed Bug 864006 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Dash in email domain foils autocompletion of address in compose window

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Message Compose Window
Version:
17 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 529584

People

(Reporter: educmale, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
Build ID: 20130409194949

Steps to reproduce:

I have a correspondent whose email is in the form "name@a-xyz"  [that's a dash between the 'a' and the 'x']

He also has other addresses.  So, to snag this odd address when composing an email: I type "a-x", to finesse the autocomplete.


Actual results:

....but nothing happens.   The dash confounds the process.

If I type "name", every address shows up, including the one with the 'dash'.  

In contrast, while in the address book, the 'dash' and "a-x" do not foil the search, finding the relevant address.   The code for searching, there, is obviously slightly different.

Within the address book, the address is found in "collected addresses" in two forms: "Name@A-XYZ.Com" and "name@a-xyz.com".


Expected results:

Other thoughts:  
Whoever takes on the code fix might also discover other quirks/differences between the two coding schema for address searches (ie: compose window versus address book), by comparing the code.   There might also be good cause to use a single subroutine in both cases...
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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