Re: Are akonadi distribution lists broken?

Neal Becker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.users.pim
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Anne Wilson wrote:

> On Wednesday 24 February 2010 12:38:05 Neal Becker wrote:
>> In kaddressbook I have 'Personal Contacts' and in there I have a dist
>> list
>> 'adg'.  In settings/advanced/kde resources I have for contacts akonadi-
>> resource enabled and set as standard.
>> 
>> In kmail I send message, then for recipient hit 'select' (I shouldn't
>> need to do this - it used to work to just enter the dist list name!), and
>> in 'select recipient' under address books I see 'distribution lists' (I
>> shouldn't need to do this either IMO) I see my list 'adg' with '10
>> addresses'.  Double click that, and 'adg' is entered as recipient in
>> kmail.
>> 
>> Then send the message and guess what?  The distribution list was not
>> expanded and I get back the bounce ([email protected])
>> 
> Neal, as I have explained many times over the past week, Distribution
> Lists
> are to be replaced by Groups.  The migration tool for this was not
> completed
> in time for 4.4 release.  The information is not lost - as you can see if
> you examine the vcf for your distlist, but you can't use the list in its
> present
> form.  You can create a group, then type the first few letters of a name
> you
> want to add and you'll be offered a completion list.  Even then, only the
> simplest functionality is available at the moment.  Opening the record for
> the group displays all its members and you can copy and paste then into a
> mail. It's not ideal, but it's a work-around until we get the next stage.
> 
> Anne

Thanks, but this time, I have totally cleaned up my old contacts.  I removed 
the old dist lists.  This time, adg IS a group I created in kaddressbook 
using 'new group'.  I now have in kaddressbook only 'personal contacts' as 
address book (removed the old std.vcf stuff).  So, what could be wrong?
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