[kdepim-users] Akonadi woes

[Art Alexion]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org> wrote:

> On Sunday 14 February 2010 19:03:32 Ronny Standtke wrote:
> > > Now it magically works.
> >
> > I got my hopes up too soon...
> >
> > Where are my distribution lists now? I can find them nowhere. I already
> > lost them once (upgrading from 3.5.9 to 3.5.10 was also some "fun"). The
> > difference is that in 3.5.10 I could just create my distribution lists
> > again from scratch. Now with 4.4 I do not find anything in kontact where
> I
> > could create new distribution lists. Where is all this stuff?
> >
> > I just noticed Anne's thread (early January):
> > http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-pim&m=126260422023582&w=2
> >
> > Does this mean that 4.4 was shipped without fixing the bugs already
> > mentioned by Anne in early January?
> >
> This is where I wish it were possible to delete threads in the archives.
>  That
> thread is very misleading.  For a start, the distlists file mentioned
> hasn't
> been used, to my knowledge, for around 2 years.  At that time distribution
> lists became integral to the addressbook.
>
> I spoke to the developers to find out the situation.  This isn't a bug, in
> terms of something working wrongly.  It's a feature that is still under
> development.  They won't be called distribution lists - that's what Groups
> is
> for.  You can create new groups now - that part is done - but at the moment
> there is no migration tool to move your old ones into groups.  What I did
> was
> search my addressbook for entries that used a keyword, then created a Group
> including those entries.  It's not the long-term answer, but it does work
> and
> doesn't take too much time if your lists are not too long.  If you have
> distlists of hundreds of addresses, though, I can see it being a problem.
>
>
> I can't say because the subject akonadi woes has my kontact out of
commission, but you used to be able to use multiple resources for
kaddressbook.  If so, can't you use the old resource for your lists, and the
new akonadi resource for new stuff?



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