[kdepim-users] Please explain about KMail contacts

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 31 July 2008 12:13:22 IloChab wrote:
> I really do not understand this.
>
> I run Kmail 1.9.9 inside Kcontact 1.2.9 under KDE 3.5.9 onto a Fedora9.
>
> If I add a new contact in Kmail's address book I can see it in Kcontact's
> contacts, and this is OK.
>
> If I write an email message with Kmail, when I start to type into `TO`
> field, I get a pull down list of all the email's addresses, present in my
> mail, that match that pattern, and this is OK too.
>
> My questions are:
>
> Why I don't see all the addresses of my received emails in the contact list
> too?
> Why I see them only typing into the message's `TO` field?
> There is any way to transfer the email addresses of the received mail to
> the contact list?
> Where is the file that contains email's addresses retrieved directly from
> mail?
>
> Thank you in advance for your explanations.
>
Hi, LICIA

KMail gets addresses from two places - your addressbook and a list of recent 
contacts.  To deal with that one first - if you need to edit that list (say 
you get a wrong address in there by accident) you can do it from Configure 
KMail > Composer > Edit Recent Addresses.  I'm not aware that it takes any 
from incoming mail, so the ones you are seeing are probably from your 
replies.

There is no automatic import of addresses - after all you don't want all those 
spam addresses adding to your addressbook, do you :-)  What you can easily do 
is right-click an address and you get the option to add it to your 
addressbook.  That's a very basic entry, so if you right-click on it again, 
select 'Open in Addressbook' and you can edit it any way you need to.

Hope that helps

Anne


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