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Kmail and Kaddressbook don't see each other

Trueash

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Wednesday, August 8th 2007, 9:20pm

Kmail and Kaddressbook don't see each other

Hello, dear ALL,

Hope you can help me solve some problems that have been driving me nuts for quite a while and spoiling all the fun from using otherwise great KDE.

Here goes:

I need to create a mailing list, with about 20 recipients. I open Kaddressbook, create a new mailing list (say, Group_A), add email addresses there and save it. Then I switch to Kmail, write my message and try to select Group_A as the recipient, but I don't see that list! I get back to Kaddressbook to check if I did - well, Group_A is there! Still, Kmail does not see it.

So I try another way - I write a message, select recipients one by one and tell Kmail to save them as a mailing list. Suprise! when I try to use Group_A as its name, Kmail says that the list already exists and I must give it a different name. Ok, I name it, say, Group-1, send it and it gets through ok.

My next email, however, gets sent to Group-1@localhost (that is, nowhere) - for some reason the list turned into an incorrect email address. Though Kmail keeps assuring me that it IS a list with 20 email addresses in it.

To make a long story short, I end up having Group-A in Kaddressbook (which Kmail does not see), and Group-1 (which is not even a list) in Kmail that Kaddressbook does not see. Now I am totally confused... BTW, individual emails work fine.

My system is Mandriva 2007.1 with KDE 3.5.6. Playing with resources in Control Center does not help.

P.S.: By the way, every time I use Kontact, in /home/alex/.kde/share/apps/kabc appears one more copy of std.vcf: std.vcf__0, std.vcf__1, std.vcf__2, etc. Deleting them does not help - they keep respawning. Apart from their names, they are absolutely identical - is it the way it should be? Don't think so...

Hope someone knows the solutions.

TIA,

Alex

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Saturday, September 15th 2007, 10:45am

same problem here

Hello,

I recently switched back to kmail from thunderbird as KDE is again my main desktop. But I have the same problem as described above.
I tried to make a distribution list in a kmail mail window by using save list button, but these end up in distlist file and dont show in kaddressbook or kmail...

Some questions:
1. what does the file distlists do in my /home/deech/.kde/share/apps/kabc/ dir?
2. why do I not see those distlists in kmail or in kaddressbook?
3. why are there more std.vcf_ files?
4. is there anyone that does not have this problem??

help would be greatly appreciated. I need to make a distlist with 100 addresses and I dont want to do it by hand :)

thanks!

deech

by the way. I am using:
kmail 1.9.7
kaddressbook 3.5.7

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "deech" (Sep 15th 2007, 11:04am)

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Tuesday, October 23rd 2007, 12:50am

RE: Kmail and Kaddressbook don't see each other

To see what distribution lists you have, or to create them go to Contacts, Settings, Show Extension Bar and be sure that the Distribution List editor has an x in the box beside the name.

Now, on the bottom part of the page you'll see a button marked New List. Click on it, give it a name, and drag and drop names from the address book into the distribution list. The file you mentioned, distlists should contain the various distribution lists you've made, but you never need to access it directly.

As I've explained, you need to activate the distribution list editor, and you'll be able to see the lists. When you go to send an email from the list, create a blank email and click on the select button. Then select distributions lists (third from the bottom) from the available categories, and you can choose which list you want to send to.

You can be very glad there are 7 std.vcf files, since from time to time one or more will get corrupted and disappear, or at least become blank. When that occurs, delete the blank std.vcf, rename the latest file with information to std.vcf, and restart Kontact. Your addresses will reappear.

Don't ask me to explain why the files get corrupted. I don't know the answer, but they do.