Daniel Vrátil wrote: >> Where does KMail get its address-completions from? >> Is it possible to edit or remove these? >> Many of the completions offered to me are bizarre inventions, >> while e-mail addresses I have used hundreds of times are ignored. > autocompletion comes from several sources: > > * configured addressbooks > * Recent addresses - i.e. addresses you've sent emails to recently > * Indexed contacts - contacts indexed from all emails > > In KMail -> Settings -> Configure KMail -> Composer -> General you can > choose which addresbooks to autocomplete from in "Configure Completion > ...", and you can turn off autocompletion from the indexed contacts by > unchecking "Use Baloo search for autocompletion". > > The "bizarre" addresses usually come from the Baloo index, I've noticed > myself that we fail to parse some addresses correctly when indexing them > leading to all kinds of funny (or broken) suggestions in composer. > Unfortunatelly there is no way to modify this index - you can only turn it > off. > > The recent addresses can be managed in the "Configure Completion" dialog. Thank you for your comprehensive reply. I've turned off Baloo for KMail. It seems to me that applications that are known not to work properly should not be on by default, unless that is really necessary (which it is not here). I see that the problem with recent addresses is that they do not include the name of the recipient, eg "Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> just becomes "gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx". This seems to me bizarre, it would surely be simpler to save the To address? My addressbook seems to have been emptied on going from CentOS-7.1 to 7.2, so I don't know if using that would keep the personal name in place. I shall find out soon. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
