[kmail2] [Bug 330983] New: using kaddressbook to store identities

Mathieu Roy yeupou at gnu.org
Mon Feb 10 14:48:31 GMT 2014


https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330983

            Bug ID: 330983
           Summary: using kaddressbook to store identities
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: kmail2
           Version: 4.11.5
          Platform: Debian testing
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: yeupou at gnu.org

kaddressbook along with kmail is convenient to share addressbooks over several
computers and mail clients, for instance in my case through ownCloud.

However, so far I found no way to share kmail identities. Moving around
~/.kde/share/config/emailidentities seems a no go to me (not convenient, kmail
specific, maybe even session/install specific).

 Is there any reason not to store identities (from what I gather, a .vcf is
produced anyway) in the addressbook? I understand some of the content in
~/.kde/share/config/emailidentities is too specific to be shared. But at least,
all the identities vcard could be added to the addressbook, with a special
field mentioning they are also to be used as identity. So any client that can
handle shared address book have access to them.

Unless I'm mistaken, for a minimal amount of change and zero extra conf for the
user, we have some identity share feature that can easily be added in other
clients. The alternative would be to use a specific addressbook for identities
but that would require many changes (for instance, so far, ownCloud provides
one addressbook per user, not two) and is probably not worth it. 


Reproducible: Always

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