[Kde-pim] distribution lists

[upscope]

On Thursday, September 23, 2010 03:44:31 am Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 23 Sep 2010 10:59:07 eddie wrote:
> > On Thursday 23 Sep 2010 00:13:03 upscope wrote:
> > > On Saturday, September 18, 2010 05:51:56 am eddie wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > > I would just like to ask what is the present state of 
distribution
> > > 
> > > lists>
> > > Did you ever get any answers to this?
> > 
> > No. As far as I can tell this is the first response. Pretty 
disappointing
> > actually. As I can't believe that I'm the only one wanting to use
> > distribution lists and for me it was quite important.
> > 
> > Before I joined the list I couldn't get it working. Googling I got 
the
> > impression that it was work in progress.  Hence my question.
> 
> Distribution lists didn't work at all when the new KAddressBook was 
first 
> launched.  As a work-around it was possible to have a distribution 
list in 
> your addressbook, display the names in the addressbook (in the 
right-hand 
> panel) and copy/paste into the address field of a message.  Not 
good, but it 
> worked.
> 
> About 3 months ago the developers got distribution lists working for 
4.5, and 
> soon after backported the fix for 4.4, but not all distros have 
included that 
> backport.  I don't know the situation in OpenSUSE.
> 
> By the way, if you do use distribution lists, be careful about 
listing names 
> Lastname(comma)Firstname - the commas confuse the system.
> 
> Anne
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Anne: I am on KDE 4.5 and the distribution lists still do not work 
totally. I can create a list from Kmail (1.13.5) by adding the 
addressees, then clicking save list. I save it to a distribution 
address book in contacts.At present I have five lists. I can select 
them in kmail and send with them. The problems arise when I go into a 
contact and change an email address. It get updated in most places 
including Kmail  akonadi-resources. But not always in the distribution 
list. Usually I have to recreate the whole list to fix it. I will 
admit I have not made any corrects since creating the lists that just 
disappeared earlier this week. 

The above is not the major issue for me, its more of a pain. My major 
issue has to do with a list of many people where there are two 
different people that use the same email address:

Select new message, add recipients to To: entries: 
	To: Nayda Littlefield <littlegb at bossig.com> 
	To: PDG Greg Littlefield <littlegb at bossig.com> 
click save list:

after doing the save list it becomes (with in the distribution list):

Actual Results: 
	Nayda Littlefield littlegb at bossig.com 
	Nayda Littlefield littlegb at bossig.com 

Expected Results: New List with: 
	To: Nayda Littlefield <littlegb at bossig.com> 
	To: PDG Greg Littlefield <littlegb at bossig.com>

If I use the original To: list, it sends fine. If I use the 
distribution list, Nayda gets two emails addressed to her. This also 
happened in 4.4 versions I I did report it to the KDE Bug 
Tracker(247886). Aug 14,2010. As far as I can tell its never been 
looked at.

Appears to be bug in Kmail 1.13.5 not Akonadi.

Any Ideas on how to get this fixed? I send out a Newsletter each month 
and have to take special steps for about 10 pairs those above.

Thanks  

-- 
Russ
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