address book problems

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On Saturday 20 March 2010 14:28:20 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 20 March 2010 14:18:12 John Aldrich wrote:
> > On Friday 19 March 2010, John Aldrich wrote:
> > > It appears I may have complained too soon. The address is now showing
> > > up. I'm not sure what's going on, but I've been trying to add it for a
> > > couple days now and it's just now finally showing up. As for the
> > > Address book, I'm just using whatever is in KMail 1.13/KDE4.4.x. I did
> > > download and install a few Fedora updates this afternoon, so maybe
> > > that's what did it, but I tried entering the addresses in Address Book
> > > several times and it never seemed to show up, either in Address Book or
> > > in the "select" function.
> > 
> > Ok. Here's the deal... it's still not working properly. If I use the
> > "select" button on the to: or cc: lines, I can NOT find the email address
> > I just added a few days ago. In KAddressbook, I can't browse the list of
> > email addresses to find what I'm looking for. However, if I *search* the
> > first few letters of the email address in question, it comes up as "spam
> > reports." Why in the heck can I not find that email address in KAddress
> > book by browsing or using the "select" in KMail to find it? What am I
> > doing wrong?
> 
> I don't know - things are changing just too fast.  I've no idea where the
> 'spam reports' comes from.  At one point I could use the akonadi
> configuration to set a default addressbook - but that option doesn't seem
> to be there any more - if it's moved, perhaps Rex or Kevin knows where?
> 
> For the newly added addresses - did you add them to an addressbook that is
> pointed to std.vcf?  According to the developers that's the prime source of
> data, and the ~/.local/share/contacts is the cached data.
> 
> After that, I'm out of ideas.  It works for me, but it's immensely
> frustrating when I can't even find the method I used to get it to work,
> i.e. set the default addressbook.
> 
Sorry - must have been befuddled.  Some of that advice is bad.  Please read 
http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi_and_AddressBook for a better explanation.

Anne
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