[kdepim-users] On going struggle to import KMail distribution list from KDE 3.5 or create new one (now using KDE 4.6)

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On Wednesday, August 10, 2011 08:08:27 AM Gil Weber wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 10, 2011 10:01:00 AM Anne Wilson wrote:
> 
> In reply to this posted by Marc, Anne replied:
> > > I'll describe what I did on my installation.
> > > 
> > > 1 - New email
> > > 2 - Add people in the "To" field
> > > 3 - Click on "Save List..."
> > > 4 - Assign a name: "List to myself"
> > > 5 - Click "Save" and select the proper Addressbook (I selected
> > > Personal Contacts as I do not really trust the Google Contacts
> > > addressbook yet) 6 - Discard the created email
> > > 7 - Created a new email and used the "List to myself" address on
> > > the "To" field. 8 - Sent the email
> > > 9 - Everything worked fine, all my personal addressess got the
> > > email.
> > > 
> > > I'm running KDE SC 4.7 on Archlinux.
> > 
> > I have just created a group  using these instructions, and can
> > confirm that they work for me.  I have KDE 4.6.5 on Fedora 14.
> > 
> > Anne
> 
> Hmmm..... Glad you were successful, Anne. I tried a couple more times
> following the instructions VERY carefully, but the problem continues
> unchanged.
> 
> So given that the instructions worked for Marc and Anne but not for
> me, either I have something screwed up in my KMail/Akonadi that's
> not allowing the instructions to work, or I'm just not understanding
> the part of the instructions about saving the list (group) to the
> proper address book.
> 
> In any case, I don't want to belabor the problem as it's probably
> something I'm doing wrong. And a viable work-around was offered.
> 
> I ended up taking Sinclair's suggestion to enter all the names into a
> dummy e-mail and then save as a template. That worked and I'll simply
> recall that template as needed.
> 
> Many thanks to everyone who contributed here. I really do appreciate
> your time and wise counsel.
> 
> (The trip to Zimbabwe sounded really nice!)  :o)
> 
> Gil
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Not you alone. I tried all the ideas and still run into the problem. The 
one where you save the list in kmail is fine until you want to add or 
deleted a contact in the group. Only way I found was deleted the group 
and recreate with the new contact.

As I said in my post above Its easiler for me to just use SeaMonkey 
until Kmail, addressbook, contacts etc get sorted out. Akonadi Resouses 
have been used since I first had this problem. 
-- 
Russ
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