Bug 92744 - e-mail address autocompletion doesnt search for surname or email address
Summary: e-mail address autocompletion doesnt search for surname or email address
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: kab3
Classification: Miscellaneous
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Debian testing Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tobias Koenig
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Reported: 2004-11-05 14:24 UTC by Martin Steigerwald
Modified: 2009-08-05 16:17 UTC (History)
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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.