| Summary | Sorting order of addresses when typing in new messages |
| Queue | IMP |
| Queue Version | 6.0.4 |
| Type | Bug |
| State | Not A Bug |
| Priority | 1. Low |
| Owners | |
| Requester | frank.richter (at) hrz (dot) tu-chemnitz (dot) de |
| Created | 05/06/2013 (4439 days ago) |
| Due | |
| Updated | 05/07/2013 (4438 days ago) |
| Assigned | |
| Resolved | 05/06/2013 (4439 days ago) |
| Github Issue Link | |
| Github Pull Request | |
| Milestone | |
| Patch | No |
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zero sense when displaying e-mail results.
'search_sources'.
I'd like to have: first list results from personal address book, then
from LDAP.
Now: mixed results from both.
See attached screen shot, marked red = from personal address book,
other results from LDAP
there is no guarantee that contacts have a first/last name, or that
this information is added correctly, so sorting by these fields
strictly alphabetically is not going to provide the correct results.
And sorting by e-mail address obviously makes no sense for a
variety of reasons (the "mailbox" portion of an email address often
has little/no correlation to a person's real name).
sorted in a way I can't interepret.
But this is not my main issue.
order, you can do so by directly altering the code.
State ⇒ Not A Bug
zero sense when displaying e-mail results.
This has been discussed before (on the lists perhaps) but briefly:
there is no guarantee that contacts have a first/last name, or that
this information is added correctly, so sorting by these fields
strictly alphabetically is not going to provide the correct results.
And sorting by e-mail address obviously makes no sense for a variety
of reasons (the "mailbox" portion of an email address often has
little/no correlation to a person's real name).
This isn't a close call. If you really want to change the sorting
order, you can do so by directly altering the code.
Priority ⇒ 1. Low
Patch ⇒ No
Milestone ⇒
Queue ⇒ IMP
Summary ⇒ Sorting order of addresses when typing in new messages
Type ⇒ Bug
State ⇒ Unconfirmed
another complaint from my users after switching from IMP4 to IMP6:
When users compose a new message and type in a name in the To: field,
they expect search results sorted according to their preferences in
search_sources. This isn't (always) the case.
Usually users have their own addressbook (localsql) and an LDAP
directory (localldap). So results from own addressbook should appear
first.
It might be a configuration problem, so any hint is welcome. Of course
I can provide my configuration and examples.
TIA,
Frank Richter,
Chemnitz University