[kdepim-users] Are akonadi distribution lists broken?

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Wednesday 24 February 2010, Neal Becker wrote:
> Neal Becker wrote:
> > Anne Wilson wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 24 February 2010 12:38:05 Neal Becker wrote:
> >>> In kaddressbook I have 'Personal Contacts' and in there I have a
> >>> dist list
> >>> 'adg'.  In settings/advanced/kde resources I have for contacts
> >>> akonadi- resource enabled and set as standard.
> >>> 
> >>> In kmail I send message, then for recipient hit 'select' (I
> >>> shouldn't need to do this - it used to work to just enter the
> >>> dist list name!), and in 'select recipient' under address books
> >>> I see 'distribution lists' (I shouldn't need to do this either
> >>> IMO) I see my list 'adg' with '10 addresses'.  Double click
> >>> that, and 'adg' is entered as recipient in kmail.
> >>> 
> >>> Then send the message and guess what?  The distribution list was
> >>> not expanded and I get back the bounce (adg at gmail.com)
> >> 
> >> Neal, as I have explained many times over the past week,
> >> Distribution Lists
> >> are to be replaced by Groups.  The migration tool for this was not
> >> completed
> >> in time for 4.4 release.  The information is not lost - as you can
> >> see if you examine the vcf for your distlist, but you can't use
> >> the list in its present
> >> form.  You can create a group, then type the first few letters of
> >> a name you
> >> want to add and you'll be offered a completion list.  Even then,
> >> only the simplest functionality is available at the moment. 
> >> Opening the record for the group displays all its members and you
> >> can copy and paste then into a mail. It's not ideal, but it's a
> >> work-around until we get the next stage.
> > 
> > Thanks, but this time, I have totally cleaned up my old contacts. 
> > I removed
> > the old dist lists.  This time, adg IS a group I created in
> > kaddressbook using 'new group'.  I now have in kaddressbook only
> > 'personal contacts' as address book (removed the old std.vcf
> > stuff).  So, what could be wrong?
> 
> The group 'adg' shows in kaddressbook, but not under 'akonadi
> resource' in kmail/select recipients.

This is just a guess, but it looks like KMail has not yet been ported to 
the new Akonadi groups.


Regards,
Ingo
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