Comment 0 for bug 956618

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<email address hidden>. The other is James<email address hidden>. Both are in my address book with Mark entered as the nickname of <email address hidden> and James as nickname for <email address hidden>.

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 <email address hidden>

Reason it is needed:
I am trying to avoid sending emails meant for <email address hidden> 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)