address book problems

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 20 March 2010 14:18:12 John Aldrich wrote:
> On Friday 19 March 2010, John Aldrich wrote:
> > It appears I may have complained too soon. The address is now showing
> > up. I'm not sure what's going on, but I've been trying to add it for a
> > couple days now and it's just now finally showing up. As for the
> > Address book, I'm just using whatever is in KMail 1.13/KDE4.4.x. I did
> > download and install a few Fedora updates this afternoon, so maybe
> > that's what did it, but I tried entering the addresses in Address Book
> > several times and it never seemed to show up, either in Address Book or
> > in the "select" function.
> 
> Ok. Here's the deal... it's still not working properly. If I use the
> "select" button on the to: or cc: lines, I can NOT find the email address I
> just added a few days ago. In KAddressbook, I can't browse the list of
> email addresses to find what I'm looking for. However, if I *search* the
> first few letters of the email address in question, it comes up as "spam
> reports." Why in the heck can I not find that email address in KAddress
> book by browsing or using the "select" in KMail to find it? What am I
> doing wrong?

I don't know - things are changing just too fast.  I've no idea where the 
'spam reports' comes from.  At one point I could use the akonadi configuration 
to set a default addressbook - but that option doesn't seem to be there any 
more - if it's moved, perhaps Rex or Kevin knows where?

For the newly added addresses - did you add them to an addressbook that is 
pointed to std.vcf?  According to the developers that's the prime source of 
data, and the ~/.local/share/contacts is the cached data. 

After that, I'm out of ideas.  It works for me, but it's immensely frustrating 
when I can't even find the method I used to get it to work, i.e. set the 
default addressbook.

Anne
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