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. > > That was not my complaint. I meant the sorting according to > preference '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 > >> 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). > > Well, all of our LDAP entries have surnames, the results are, wlle > sorted in a way I can't interepret. > But this is not my main issue. > >> 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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