Closed Bug 158728 Opened 22 years ago Closed 15 years ago

Autocomplete should list the Collected Address Book entries last

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(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

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(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX

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(Reporter: nbaca, Unassigned)

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Branch build 2002-07-19: WinMe Branch build 2002-07-22: Mac X haven't tried linux yet. Overview: When autocomplete finds a match in the Personal Address Book, the Collected Address Book and a User Defined address book then it should display the Collected address book entries last. Steps to reproduce: 1. You need three typs of address books: a. Personal Address Book (pab) b. Collected Address Book (cab) c. User Defined address book (uab) 2. Type similar entries in all address books a. In the pab add a card with an email: test1@pab.com b. In the cab add a card with an email: test1@cab.com c. In the uab add a card with an email: test1@uab.com 3. Create a message and type "test1" Actual Results: When the autocomplete dropdown box appears it displays: test1@pab.com test1@cab.com test1@uab.com Expected Results: It should display the pab, uab and then the cab entries last: test1@pab.com test1@uab.com test1@cab.com
Marking nsbeta1 so this is considered fixed for a future release.
Keywords: nsbeta1
QA Contact: esther → nbaca
Sounds good.
We don't create the CAB by default or save email addresses to it by default anymore. Therefore, do we still want/need this bug?
Mail triage team: nsbeta1-
Keywords: nsbeta1-
Keywords: nsbeta1
Is this bug still an issue? Was it ever WFM, to anyone's knowledge? See bug 201511, which claims a very similar symptom and yet states that it only started happening recently. (That bug is WinXP, this is Mac, but I doubt that's a useful difference.)
Apart from showing the CAB entries last, I suggest to mark them as being collected.
I just tried this bug with a third book in place, and I found the addresses listed in no particular order. I think that there is in fact no certain order to the entries. I typed "ka" which matches a number of items in each of the various books (PAB=personal, CAB=collected, XAB=custom) and got entries in this order (shown by which part of the name they match): last from CAB first from PAB (one particular entry, addr 1) first from XAB first from CAB first from PAB (same particular entry, addr 2) first from PAB list from PAB first from PAB I tried "pa" and got these matches: last from PAB first from PAB first from XAB first from CAB I think the order is partially dependent on the order in which names were added to the book, but not entirely.
*** Bug 201511 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(this is kind of similar to bug 64662 - made same comment there) I am seeing a problem with the order the autocomplete addresses are presented. I want it to prefer an LDAP entry over any other. I would like to be able to assign a number to each source of addresses and have it list them in that order. eg LDAP server ldap.local.domain.com #1 LDAP server ldap.domain.com #2 PersonalAddressBook #3 CollectedAddresses #4 or something...you get the idea. I do like the idea of an option to remember which source was selected last time for a particular address, but perhaps that would be a bit of a nightmare to implement. Max.
Product: MailNews → Core
*** Bug 292154 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Mark, Bryan, since autocomplete changed to order based on frequency iirc, is this bug still wontfix? or at least more correctly ENH?
Assignee: ducarroz → nobody
QA Contact: nbaca → composition
Hardware: Macintosh → All
Product: Core → MailNews Core
Severity: normal → enhancement
Whiteboard: wontfix?
following the lead of bug 64662 which is WONTFIX, and with Bryan's blessing, this bug is also WONTFIX. The current selection criteria is PopularityIndex. If other selection criteria are wanted then an extension is needed.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
I too would like this bug to be fixed, since I had some e-mails in the Collected Address Book which were invalid, and TB sent e-mails to them instead of the personal address book where they were valid. (because the person who sent me an e-mail had the addresses with a ' before and after making them invalid)
Whiteboard: wontfix?
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