User:Standard8/Thunderbird Autocomplete

As of Thunderbird 3.0.2 here is the current autocomplete algorithm:

• The basic sort order will be based on how many times you have sent an email to a particular e-mail address.
  • Only "Local"/"Personal" address books take account of the count.
  • Mac OS X and LDAP address books do not participate in the count and contacts in those books will appear at the end of the list.
• If the number of times you have sent an email a contact is the same, then the sort order will be based alphabetically.

Note: 3.0 and 3.0.1 had a bug that affected the order such that it was a random order every time the same search string was entered. This is fixed in 3.0.2.

Known bugs in 3.0.2:

• bug 543088 The "Primary" Email and Additional Email are always sorted alphabetically (this is targetted to land in 3.0.3).
• bug 543114 Mac OS X and LDAP address books do not participate in the count and contacts in those books will appear at the end of the list.