[Bug 956618] Re: Nickname not over-riding names in email address
Upstream bug showing "RESOLVED FIXED" on 2015-02-03 Target milestone - Thunderbird 38.0 Confirmed working in Ubuntu 18.04 and Thunderbird 60.2.1 Closing by marking "Fix Released" ** Changed in: thunderbird (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/956618 Title: Nickname not over-riding names in email address To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/956618/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 956618] Re: Nickname not over-riding names in email address
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: thunderbird (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/956618 Title: Nickname not over-riding names in email address To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/956618/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 956618] Re: Nickname not over-riding names in email address
** Changed in: thunderbird Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/956618 Title: Nickname not over-riding names in email address To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/956618/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 956618] Re: Nickname not over-riding names in email address
** Changed in: thunderbird Importance: High => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/956618 Title: Nickname not over-riding names in email address To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/956618/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 956618] Re: Nickname not over-riding names in email address
** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #984875 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=984875 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/956618 Title: Nickname not over-riding names in email address To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/956618/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 956618] Re: Nickname not over-riding names in email address
** Changed in: thunderbird Importance: Wishlist => High -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/956618 Title: Nickname not over-riding names in email address To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/956618/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 956618] Re: Nickname not over-riding names in email address
Launchpad has imported 34 comments from the remote bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325458. If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. On 2006-02-01T15:46:50+00:00 Brian-atkins wrote: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/2005 Firefox/1.5 Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.5 I have an address book entry with the nickname "wil". When I type "wil" in the To line in the composition window, the result is an entry who's last name is "Wilbur" and which has no nickname at all. The algorithm for finding addresses in the phone book should have the highest precedence on a full string match of nickname (after all, why did the user take the time to enter a nick name after all"). Imho, the precedence should be: 1) Full string match on nickname 2) Full string match on last name 3) Full string match on first name 4) Initial string match on nickname 5) Initial string match on last name 6) Initial string match on first name You may not think this is important, but anything that causes mail to get sent to the wrong user inadvertantly is just about he worst possible problem a mailer can have. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create an entry with "wil" as the nickname 2. Create an entry with Wilber as the last name 3. Enter "wil" in the To: field of the composition window Actual Results: The entry with the last name Wilbur is autocompleted Expected Results: The entry with the nickname "wil" should have been autocompleted I entered this defect before, and have seen others report it. However, I searched Bugzilla and, searching for "nickname", did not find it. I apologize if this is duplicate, but after about 30min searching, I couldn't find the old bug. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/956618/comments/0 On 2006-02-01T17:28:54+00:00 Brian-atkins wrote: I should have added a possibly important point. I have multiple address books, which appear, and I assume are searched in alphabetical order. The entry for "Wilber" appears in an address book at the top, which begins with "A". The entry with "wil" as the nickname appears in an address book further down, which begins with "I". Perhaps the solution is to allow the user to set the order by which the address books are searched? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/956618/comments/1 On 2006-02-01T20:10:31+00:00 Mcow wrote: See bug 323364, which references several other bugs about list ordering. I'm not convinced this is a major bug; it sounds like an enhancement request to me. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/956618/comments/2 On 2006-02-14T01:04:30+00:00 Eg-pat-tx wrote: (In reply to comment #0) > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) > Gecko/2005 Firefox/1.5 > Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.5 This anomoly appeared after I updated to v1.5 Before typing "Jim" followed by the ENTER key produced the ONE email with nickname "Jim". Now my mail is getting addressed to an email address beginning with "Jim..." Why on earth would anyone updating the app change this behavior. I can't use nicknames at all now because they DON"T WORK! Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/956618/comments/3 On 2006-08-31T21:17:18+00:00 Stachnis wrote: > This anomoly appeared after I updated to v1.5 Before typing "Jim" followed by > the ENTER key produced the ONE email with nickname "Jim". Now my mail is > getting addressed to an email address beginning with "Jim..." Why on earth > would anyone updating the app change this behavior. I can't use nicknames at > all now because they DON"T WORK! I totally agree. I send several email sto the wrong person in the last days. I changed back to Mozilla Suite, which does not has not this in my opinion really serious bug. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/956618/comments/4 On 2006-09-25T10:31:34+00:00 Alexandre-ferrieux wrote: Total agreement, this is a serious *regression* from ol'good Mozilla 1.7. And also from any decent mail client by the way: only an idiot would prefer to have all substring matches from LDAP or collected address book take precedence over the hand-crafted, ultra-short nicknames. So currently for me Thunderbird is unusable, because of theis very nickname issue. Since this bug was reported 8 mon
[Bug 956618] Re: Nickname not over-riding names in email address
** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #325458 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325458 ** Also affects: thunderbird via https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325458 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/956618 Title: Nickname not over-riding names in email address To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/956618/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 956618] Re: Nickname not over-riding names in email address
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/956618 Title: Nickname not over-riding names in email address To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/956618/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs