Re: Are akonadi distribution lists broken?
Neal Becker <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.users.pim |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Neal Becker wrote: > 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? The group 'adg' shows in kaddressbook, but not under 'akonadi resource' in kmail/select recipients.