[Kde-pim] distribution lists

[Stephan Mueller]

Am Donnerstag, 23. September 2010, um 12:03:36 schrieb eddie:

Hi eddie,

> On Thursday 23 Sep 2010 08:38:20 Stephan Mueller wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 23. September 2010, um 01:13:03 schrieb upscope:
> > 
> > Hi upscope,
> > 
> > just for the records. I use distribution lists for sending encrypted
> > emails to mailing lists (I have an addressbook entry with the mailing
> > list email address and associate all GPG keys with the list in the
> > encryption part of the addressbook entry).
> > 
> > You can easily run into problems with that as these lists seem to be
> > stored in *three* locations: once in the Vcards, once in akonadi and
> > once in the nepomuk database.
> > 
> > To fix the problem that the encryption key configuration in the vcards
> > are not used, I had to:
> > 
> > - log out of KDE
> > 
> > - remove .kde/share/apps/nepomuk
> > 
> > - log into KDE
> > 
> > - use akonadiconsole to remove the current addressbook agent
> > 
> > - install a new addressbook agent
> > 
> > - restart akonadi (akonadictl stop, akonadictl start)
> > 
> > - start kmail
> > 
> > Now, the encryption keys were found.
> > 
> > 
> > To the akonadi/nepomuk team: is there a way that the vcards are used as
> > authoritative source?
> > 
> > Please note that I have written a Perl script that takes the group
> > definitions in gpg.conf and copies that into the vcards to allow kmail to
> > send to the groups encrypted. However, since there is nepomuk and
> > akonadi, I have problems as updates to the vcard files are sometimes not
> > honored by kmail. To fix that, I sometimes have to remove and re-add the
> > addressbook akonadi agent. In harder cases, I have to do the procedure
> > outlined above.
> > 
> > Note, when I update the vcards, I just change the contents of the files,
> > I do not move files around (which would break the inodify watches of
> > akonadi or nepomuk).
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Stephan
> > 
> > > 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
> 
> Hi Stephan
> 
> Are you suggesting that distribution lists work fine with kmail but when
> you are using encrypted mail you have to used the process you mentioned
> above or are you saying that one needs to do this to get any distribution
> list to work?

What I think is happening is that all information stored in the addressbook is 
somehow stored on akonadi and/or nepomuk. This means that my problems my 
easily reflect your problems too having the same roots.
> 
> Eddie


Ciao
Stephan

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