Bug 2475

Summary: Address auto-completion and special characters
Product: Claws Mail (GTK 2) Reporter: J <jerome>
Component: UI/Compose WindowAssignee: users
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.7.9   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   

Description J 2011-08-25 00:33:28 UTC 
Address auto-completion using display name can not be used with special characters.

For example, if I have contacts like :
[Work] Bob          weirdaddress@domain.tld
[Football] John     dumbaddress@domain.tld

I can't auto-complete their address unless I know the beginning of the email address itself.

I got no idea whether or not this would be difficult to improve.
Comment 1 Paul 2014-01-15 09:30:15 UTC 
implemented in version 3.9.3
Comment 2 J 2014-01-15 23:21:25 UTC 
Not exactly, I think.

The search now matches even if the characters entered are not the beginning of the name or the email address. The special characters are ignored.

So, with my example, I can now enter "work" or "bob", but adding "[" won't make any difference.

In practice, this is just as good, probably even better, so as a matter of fact, this is fixed for me.

Thanks.