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

[O. Sinclair]

On 10/08/2011 14:50, Gil Weber wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 10, 2011 08:28:11 AM O. Sinclair wrote:
>
> Marc wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Marc Deop i Argemí
>
>
> And Sinclair replied:
>
>
>> If this works it is great- this is what I wanted from start, so to
>> speak. However, as described by Gil and noted by Anne, the
>> Groups/Lists function is erratic in that it sometimes defaults to
>> the
>> "myid at mycomputer.mydomain" address, wherever it now picks up that.
>>
>> I have noted that sometimes I can sort that problem by removing and
>> then adding an address to the suddenly misbehaving list/group. Have
>> no idea why/how and I am as upgraded as I can be on Kubuntu 10.04
>> with KDE 4.7 - though still (back) on Kontact 4.4/ KMail 1.
>>
>> Best,
>> Sinclair
>
> And I followed Marc's instructions but had no luck. The message bounced
> back to me again. Same problem as Sinclair notes and I previously noted:
> KMail makes the outgoing address as  "myid at mycomputer.mydomain" instead
> of the list of e-mail addresses I had created.
>
> Note also that Marc says to put the list into the proper address book
> (he uses Personal Contacts but mentions Google Contacts). I don't have a
> choice, and I have nothing named Personal Contacts or Google Contacts.
> Where do these appear?
>
> I am more confused than ever.
> Gil

I think you have to come visit me - take the next flight to Zimbabwe...

Personal Contacts - go to System Settings, Personal Information, KDE 
Resources (in Kubuntu at least) and set Contacts to use an Akonadi 
Resource. Edit that one to be Standard for Contacts and Distribution 
Lists (yes here Groups are Dist Lists...). Make sure the "Address book 
source" is your directory for the "old type contacts" for now.

KMail/Kaddressbook should now use said resource as default Address Book 
- you may have to play around with this a bit, it was a while since I 
had to sort that out. Note that even if you make a mistake nothing 
should disappear. A backup of your Contacts directory might not be a bad 
idea even so. I ended up moving my contacts to the new default directory 
(/user/.local/share/contacts) though I somehow managed to create 2 
Personal Contacts - one is empty but I simply can find no way of 
deleting it... and they point to the same directory.

And I have never had any luck with the "save as distribution list" but 
have had to go the longer way of adding Contacts one by one as described 
earlier.
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