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

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/12238
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  Ticket             | 12238
  Updated By         | Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>
  Summary            | Sorting order of addresses when typing in new messages
  Queue              | IMP
  Version            | 6.0.4
  Type               | Bug
-State              | Unconfirmed
+State              | Not A Bug
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             |
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Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org> (2013-05-06 10:30) wrote:

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.