Original von k1mgy
What works is when the Kmail address book is loaded with addresses. However, there is no connection between Kmail's address book and the "Address Book" that is a seperate application. If you launch "Tools.. Address Book" (loads as "Address Manager", and then titles itself as "Address Book Browser - KAddress"), you'll see what I mean.
I'm not sure I understand. What do you mean by KMail address book? It doesn't have a separate one here. When I click the address book entry in the Tools menu it starts the KDE address book. I haven't done anything to configure it that way.
What version of KDE, KAddressbook and KMail are you using, BTW, and what distro?
Original von k1mgy
How do you get the Address Book to link to KMail? I've already gone throuigh a difficult exercise getting Outlook addresses into the Address Book (KAddress). It would be a shame to have to enter them again, plus maintain the unecessary redundancy.
I don't think you'll have to. In fact, integration between the different parts is one of the
strong points of KDE. KMail uses the data from KAddressbook, Kopete (the instant messenger) too. I think you're seeing some kind of misconfiguration.
In KDE 3.3, when I click the button labelled "..." right of the To: field then I get a popup with a tree view on the left side. The two top level elements are "Recent addresses" and "Other addresses". The latter one contains the email addresses from the entries in my KDE Addressbook... What do you get when you press that button?
Original von k1mgy
I'm probably bitching and someone might come along and tell me to do it myself, or bark that it's free. My concern, however, is not just for me - but for KDE to become a serious and sustainable alternative to the other system. Something was missed here. Either it wasn't designed to integrate intentionally; it was overlooked; or the documentation needs to be updated. If there's a way to do what I suggest, I can't find it.
As I said, this normally works out-of-the-box. I would completely agree with you if the integration weren't already there...
One thing you could check is if the address book instance started from the Tools menu in KMail loads/saves its data from/to a different file than when starting it from the command line or the K Menu. The standard location is ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf