KAddress Book entries not showing up in KMail

Hello, all...
I'm having some severe frustration because although KAddressBook still 
exists, KMail ignores it. Sure I can create a new email from KAB, but if I 
want to forward an existing email to a KAB contact, there's no way to do 
that currently, other than manually typing in the email address.

I have come to the conclusion that the KDEPIM developers released the new 
KDEPIM/KMail before they had the ability to update the internal KMail 
address book. I'm wondering if there is some magical tool to get new VCF 
files imported into the address book, as just placing them in the contacts 
folder (~/.local/share/contacts) doesn't work. :-(

Any idea when we'll have an interface between KAB and KMail again or a 
replacement for KAB?