[Bug 956618] [NEW] Nickname not over-riding names in email address

[Robin]

Public bug reported:

>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 at yyyy.com>. The other is
James<James.Mark at xxxx.com>. Both are in my address book with Mark
entered as the nickname of Mark at yyyy.com  and James as nickname for
James.Mark at xxxx.com.

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 at yyyy.com

Reason it is needed:
I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for mark at yyyy.com 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)

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


** Tags: apport-bug i386 oneiric running-unity

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