[Bug 268416] [NEW] automatic search for contacts in the "To:" field should find partial matches

[Chronos]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: thunderbird

When writing an email, you need to specify who are you sending the mail to (the "To:" field). While you start typing the desired contact, an automatic search through your contacts is done for you.
The problem is this search only searches the beginning of the contact name, while I think It should search every field in every contact you have, looking for any partial match.
For example:
If I start typing "eorg", ThunderBird should offer me at least every george on my contact list, in the drop down menu for me to select from.
Is this possible to implement? Is it too hard?

Thank you!
Ps: I don't know if this is the place to ask for this. If it is not, point me in the right direction and I'll delete this.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep 10 00:28:49 2008
Dependencies:
 
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ath_hal
Package: mozilla-thunderbird None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-thunderbird.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic x86_64

** Affects: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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automatic search for contacts in the "To:" field should find partial matches
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/268416
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