Tickets :: Comment on [#12238] Sorting order of addresses when typing in new messages

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Comment	> This is definitely not a bug. Because sorting alphabetically makes > 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.
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