address book problems

[Jan Simonson]

tisdag 23 mars 2010 skrev Anne Wilson:
> > > If I click on an email-address in AddressBook a "new mail" window in
> > > Kmail opens with the address in the to-field just as expected. If, on
> > > the other hand, I open a "new mail" window from Kmail and try to
> > > select a contact I'm presented a list which reflects the situation
> > > before the migration to Akonadi. Any changes or new entries are not
> > > there! I guess, without knowing, that Kmail still reads the old
> > > ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf while Akonadi only updates
> > > ~/.local/share/contacts/ .
> > > 
> > > Using Kmail gradually becomes much harder as more and more contacts are
> > > added or changed. You now have to look up each contact manually in
> > > AddressBook instead of just typing the name in the to-field. Even
> > > worse, as you loose track of which addresses have changed you risk
> > > using outdated addresses!
> > > 
> > > How can an update be pushed as "stable" from upstream with a regression
> > > like this?
> 
> Yet this is another case of 'it works for me' - so we have to find out why 
> you have a problem, since it cannot possibly be a faulty package.

If you add a new contact in AddressBook and then open a "new mail" window in 
Kmail and type the _name_ of the new contact in the to-field does the email-
address really come up there as a suggestion for you?

-- 
Jan Simonson