Re: [Geary] import / sync contacts

[Robert Schroll <rschroll gmail com>]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Federico Bruni <fede inventati org> 
wrote:
> The debian bug reports are all generated by debian server, so the 
> From: header contains owner bugs debian org and not my address.
> And these bug addresses, which I almost never write to, come before a 
> debian list I often write to and receive the email from.

Well, "almost never" counts the same as "often" to Geary -- it doesn't 
track frequency of use.  (Arguably it should, although that would 
introduce another set of issues.)  But you probably mean that you 
almost never write to that whole class of addresses, meaning you've 
never written to most of them.  If that's the case, continue on...
> I have a feeling that it is a bug.
> Can you suggest a "scientific approach" to create a proper bug 
> report? Perhaps a sqlite query to check my current rankings?

If you run a query like
> select normalized_email, highest_importance
> from contacttable
> where normalized_email like "%debian%"
> order by highest_importance desc, normalized_email asc
you should get a listing of addresses similar to what you'd get if you 
typed "debian" into the to: entry.  (Not exactly, since we're not 
actually generating that list from the database, but it should be 
close.)  If the sort order is different from what you get in a contact 
entry box, that's a bug.  If it's the same, but the ordering feel 
wrong, we'll have to dig deeper.  It could be that Geary 
mis-categorized the address at some point.  Or you could be forgetting 
a time you sent an email to that address.

Robert