[Bug 246577] kmail does not look up address book

[Ralph Moenchmeyer]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246577





--- Comment #4 from Ralph Moenchmeyer <rm anracon de>  2010-08-30 13:34:53 ---
(In reply to comment #3)

Sorry, if my comments have confused you even more. You are right - I am not a
KDE developer, but, yes, I haved used KDE, Kontact and Kmail for years. 

Let me try to clarify some of the confusion: 

There is always a "systemsettings" for KDE 4. Just type "systemsettings &" at
your prompt in a terminal window. You can find it in the KDE menu or SUSE's
menu, too. 

Regarding the point "Personal Information", which you could not find under your
"systemsettings": 

The structure of KDE's  "systemsettings" has been changed from KDE 4.4 to KDE
4.5. If you have an unmodified Opensuse 11.3 implementation than you probably
have KDE 4.4.4 and not KDE 4.5. 

However, my last comments to bug 220608 referred to KDE 4.5 - as I stated in
the beginning of the comments. 

So you probably see a different (older) version of the "systemsettings" window
than I do.

For KDE 4.4.3 you are right and the correct place to eventuallly add some
entries for adress book resources is:  
systemsettings > Advanced > KDE Resources.   

Sorry, for the confusion, but KDE changes so fast. I had no time to write down
the differences in how to treat the Kmail problem for different KDE versions.

Anyhow - if you set up (i.e. add) a "traditional" address book in Kontact first
and after (!) that add it manually as a resource in the "systemsettings" of
your KDE's version, then Kmail's adress completion will work for KDE 4.4 and
KDE 4.5 under Opensuse 11.3 and Opensuse 11.2. 

Did you set up a "traditional" address book in Kontakt first? And is your
Akonadi system running flawlessly? Please check !   

I have implemented Opensuse 11.2 and Opensuse 11.3 now on 4 different systems
(PCs, Laptops) with both local address books and server based address books.
Address completion in Kmail worked after adding my address books first to
Kontakt and then manually defined it as a KDE-resource via "systemsettings".    

However, I agree completely: This juggling should not be necessary. 

Nevertheless, while the KDE developers work out a better solution, my
"workaround" should be described more clearly and supplemented by some
screenshots. I hope I find the time to do this during the next days ...

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