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Motivation for this report comes from feedback from a client with  ~25,000 contacts in their DB.

I want to file an issue and thought it was worth discussing here first

On demo if searching in the box called 'Complete OR Partial Name' with 'jimsemail@jim.com', the search returns 'Keller, Jim' which is unexpected and unhelpful in most cases, e.g. when there are a lot of contacts and the user is searching for a person whose name is common in an email address.

I see that http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-273 'Search: Name criteria should match against email address as well as display_name' is argueing the opposite.

But, AFAIK display name will actually be the email address in those cases where there is no first or last name.  So I propose that we stop it any text in the name box being searched against email.

That's very cool - thanks lobo - had missed that one