address book problems

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On Tuesday 23 March 2010 14:55, Jan Simonson wrote:
> tisdag 23 mars 2010 skrev Anne Wilson:
> > > > If I click on an email-address in AddressBook a "new mail" window in
> > > > Kmail opens with the address in the to-field just as expected. If, on
> > > > the other hand, I open a "new mail" window from Kmail and try to
> > > > select a contact I'm presented a list which reflects the situation
> > > > before the migration to Akonadi. Any changes or new entries are not
> > > > there! I guess, without knowing, that Kmail still reads the old
> > > > ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf while Akonadi only updates
> > > > ~/.local/share/contacts/ .
> > > >
> > > > Using Kmail gradually becomes much harder as more and more contacts
> > > > are added or changed. You now have to look up each contact manually
> > > > in AddressBook instead of just typing the name in the to-field. Even
> > > > worse, as you loose track of which addresses have changed you risk
> > > > using outdated addresses!
> > > >
> > > > How can an update be pushed as "stable" from upstream with a
> > > > regression like this?
> >
> > Yet this is another case of 'it works for me' - so we have to find out
> > why you have a problem, since it cannot possibly be a faulty package.
>
> If you add a new contact in AddressBook and then open a "new mail" window
> in Kmail and type the _name_ of the new contact in the to-field does the
> email- address really come up there as a suggestion for you?

Jan - at the moment I can't boot my laptop at all, so I can't confirm it, but 
I can say definitely that it did, last time I tried it, a few days ago.

Anne


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