Sylpheed

The autocomplete function seems to find matches only if e-mail address or name begin with the search string.

This effectively prevents looking for contacts by family name if the display name order is [first name] [family name] (which applies to all of my non-asian contacts). Therefore, it could be more convenient if matches would also be found when e-mail address or name contain the search string.

Current behaviour (example name "John Doe <abcde@fg.hi>"):

joh -> match
ohn -> no match
doe -> no match
abc -> match
bcde -> no match
fg.hi -> no match

Desired behaviour (example name "John Doe <abcde@fg.hi>"):

joh -> match
ohn -> match
doe -> match
abc -> match
bcde -> match
fg.hi -> match

Alternative solution: All name components divided by spaces or hyphens are searched separatedly

joh -> match
ohn -> no match
doe -> match
abc -> match
bcde -> no match
fg.hi -> no match

This behaviour was observed both on 3.2.0beta5 (Windows 7) and 3.2.0beta3 (Ubuntu 11.10).

Note:
I have entered this as a bug. However, if the current behaviour is intended and therefore this issue belongs in the category "Feature Request", please feel free to move it there. Thank you!