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(In reply to Magnus Melin from comment #98)
> I don't think this is ESR material as it's a new behavior not fixing a
> regression.

In view of 33 votes here and the quantity of bugs reported against
autocomplete result sorting algorithm, I find that evaluation
nitpicking. While in a strictly technical sense, this might not be a
regression, it's actually worse:

1) Once upon a time we delivered a feature which apparently has never
worked as intended and required by inherent design. That's a significant
failure which shouldn't have to wait any longer when it's finally fixed
9 years after being reported.

2) We have only recently exposed this problem significantly more by
expanding the scope of recipient search for certain scenarios. So, as
seen from numerous reports, users are now more affected by this design
problem, because of the changes made in recent version. Technicalities
aside, that looks like a de-facto regression to me (as confirmed by
users saying "it used to work until recently but now it fails").

I don't see any risks coming from this straightforward patch, except
that we're undermmining popularityIndex a bit more again, but this works
on exactly the same terms and conditions as Bug 970456 so there's
nothing new here.

So I still think this 5-line-patch should land on ESR.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/956618

Title:
  Nickname not over-riding names in email address

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
  Fix Released
Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  From what I have read in the support forum the nickname should take
  priority in the search for an email address in the to: field. It does
  not appear to work any more.

  Example:

  One friend's address is Mark<Mark@xxxxxxxx>. The other is
  James<James.Mark@xxxxxxxx>. Both are in my address book with Mark
  entered as the nickname of Mark@xxxxxxxx  and James as nickname for
  James.Mark@xxxxxxxx.

  If I type james in the To: field I get james.mark as a first entry in
  the list of available addresses.

  If I type mark I get the same address again, when I would prefer the
  first optional address to be mark@xxxxxxxx

  Reason it is needed:
  I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for mark@xxxxxxxx to James.mark because I do not notice in time that I have defaulted to the first entry in the list of available addresses.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: thunderbird 10.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.29-generic-pae 3.0.20
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic-pae i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: i386
  BuildID: 20120216123548
  Date: Fri Mar 16 00:31:06 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
  SourcePackage: thunderbird
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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