On Sat, 19 May 2012 09:54:13 +0000 (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Lex Middelberg posted on Sat, 19 May 2012 09:53:01 +0200 as excerpted: > > > Greetings. > > > > I am using a stock standard Kubuntu set-up (precise). My > > KAddressbook hold about 800 contacts. The problem is that it is > > spawning hundreds and hundreds of empty tags and tags in this > > format: > > > > nemopuk:/res/ (some alphanumeric string) > > > > To add a tag to a new contact takes 20 seconds for the dialog to > > open and to delete just one of them takes at least 15 seconds. > > > > Now I also find that although I delete a tag assigned to a contact, > > that contact still shows up in searches using the previously > > assigned tag althoug nothing shows on the screen. That is annoying > > at the very least. > > > > I can't work like this. Is there perhaps a way to delete all the > > duplicate tags in one go? > > FWIW, database-related "malfunctionality" such as this is one reason > I decided to dump kmail and the rest of kdepim entirely, here. > Switching my mail archive, address book, and mail filters over to > claws-mail wasn't easy, but it was worth it, for sure, and the worst > I get in a crash is a few read messages showing up as unread, again, > if it hadn't yet saved that status. YMMV, but claws-mail was a > better solution for me anyway, and with kde's color scheme exported > to gtk apps, I've been very happy with the results. Not as > integrated with kde, but I'll take actually working over integrated, > any day. > +1 on that Moved to claws mail here and unless Kmail and friends get fixed and working fully i will not be going back , Claws mail just works and the spam filtering is working fine as well as does threading and mailing lists . Pete -- Linux 7-of-9 3.3.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun May 13 10:52:32 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.