Improve Thunderbird autocomplete email addresses in To/Cc boxes: add "last used" date

[LtChambers]

Often when I'm typing in someone's name or email Thunderbird will autosuggest several similar names and, if the contact has emails at multiple domains, all those domains will be suggested. The problem is, for many of my contacts, I don't remember which domain(s) they're currently using. If Thunderbird kept track of the last time we received an email from each contact address, it could display an autocomplete list like:

Input: John D

Suggestions:

John.Doe@email.com (last used 2023-5-25)
John.Doe@hotmail.tv (last used 2017-2-3)
John.Dozer@example.com (last used 2023-1-3)

If I was looking for John Doe, this would let me easily pick the email.com address as the current one.

[Jon]

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[omicky]

good idea, as i was searching a way to clean up my address(s) as it becoming a jungle. Maybe not the exact last time contacted maybe all the addresses are given red dot on specific date 1/1/2025. if the email address is contacted/involve the red dot changes to a another colour.  so the user knows if the email address is being used or verified years later. bit like automatic tag coming in and going out build into the address book arena as option for users to control their address book and they can chose if they need to clean out years old address(s)