Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 18 February 2010 12:20:26 Neal Becker wrote: >> Anne Wilson wrote: >> > On Thursday 18 February 2010 00:45:50 Neal Becker wrote: >> >> After migration, my distribution lists in kaddressbook now look like >> >> random ascii garbage. >> > >> > Please describe what you are seeing, and where. Vague things like this >> > give us no chance of helping you. >> > >> > Anne >> >> See attached. 'adg' is a dist. list. It used to be a list of names. It >> looks to me, that the vcf file has a UID for each person, and the dist >> list is a ref to these UIDs. >> >> e.g: >> X-KADDRESSBOOK- DistributionList:;NmeHrnOTSK\,;2i4hfxBSOd\,;s6Q3CFWGtm\,;vq9 >> TCsQRbp\,;gtwnqAv0TZ\,;Ne9cQXQUB6\,;LqVX3rVhdr\,;HtXWCXJxhz\,;GBspyD2Rka\, >> ; KAUdn8y7Wi\, >> > That's not gobbledegook :-) They are identification strings - more or > less what you guessed. > >> It's not just cosmetic (kosmetic?), I found out because I tried to send >> to my dist list adg with kmail and it didn't work (did not expand adg to >> the >> list of recipients). This worked fine before the upgrade to 4.4. > > The old lists will not be migrated in a workable fashion, as the mechanism > is > not the same. You need to identify the names that should be in your list, > then create a group to put them in. I think you will find that you can > see > them under ~/.local/share/contacts. If you use the dolphin info panel you > should be able to quickly see which contact each one refers to, then > create your group with those names. > > Groups are the start of distribution list functionality. It's not > completely functional yet, but at least you can hit the group entry, see > the list of > appropriate entries, then copy and paste into a mail. The rest is still > to come. > > Anne Since 'new group' is grayed out, that could be difficult.
