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[Gilem <956618@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Exact match was the change that happened to me at some point in the past
year.  I have a few short nicknames like 'jim'. In previous version,
typing quickly jim[tab] instantly prefilled from the nickname.  In the
newer versions, if there are any addresses in the book starting with
jim, the behavior is to put a red 'jim' in the to box, and not allow
sending at all.  I fail to see the point of the nickname if it is not
used, and one should not have to wait .5s for the autocomplete to
prefill to hit tab.

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Title:
  Nickname not over-riding names in email address

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
  Confirmed
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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