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