[kdepim-users] Are akonadi distribution lists broken?

[Neal Becker]

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.
>> 
>> Anne
> 
> 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.

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