Bug 92744

Summary:	e-mail address autocompletion doesnt search for surname or email address
Product:	kab3	Reporter:	Martin Steigerwald <martin.steigerwald>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Tobias Koenig <tokoe>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kloecker
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Martin Steigerwald 2004-11-05 14:24:18 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.1)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:                Linux

Hello,

the e-mail address autocompletion feature in KMail 1.7 from KDE 3.3.1 seems to search from the beginning of a string that consists of one or more of:

Firstname Surname <email@address>

This makes it impossible to use auto completion with the surname or the e-mail adress (unless only the e-mail address is stored in auto completion, for example for recently used e-mail adresses). 

IMHO KMail should search in firstname, surname and email address. Our customer just wants auto completion with surname instead of firstname. 

(see discussion on kdepim-users mailing list:
http://lists.kde.org/?t=109957440000001&r=1&w=2)

Regards,
Martin Steigerwald - team(ix) GmbH - http://www.teamix.de

Comment 1 Ingo Klöcker 2004-11-06 18:42:28 UTC

FWIW, this behavior of autocompletion sucks even more if one has lots of "Prof." and "Dr." and people with other titles in the address book.

Hmm, that's not really a KAddressBook bug. But filing it against kdelibs is probably useless because for general autocompletion this isn't needed. I guess we (as in the PIM devs who need intelligent email address autocompletion) will have to write our own autocompletion code.

Comment 2 Christian Schaarschmidt 2006-12-19 18:16:52 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77342 ***

Comment 3 Tobias Koenig 2009-08-05 16:17:54 UTC

The development of the old KAddressBook will be discontinued for KDE 4.4.
Since the new application has the same name, but a completly new code base we close all bug reports against the old version and ask the submitters to resend there reports against the new product.