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Original von k1mgy

When I create a new email and begin to type the name in the TO field, (as an outlook user) I was expecting the closest address book entry to appear. When I checked the address list in KMail, I was surprised to find that none of my 400+ addresses in the KAddress Book were there.

I can only say that it works here. When I start to type a first name then the matching entries from the addressbook are shown. It also shows people I never sent an email to from this computer so the names cannot come from a list of "recent addresses" KMail has stored away somewhere.

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Original von k1mgy

What works is when the Kmail address book is loaded with addresses. However, there is no connection between Kmail's address book and the "Address Book" that is a seperate application. If you launch "Tools.. Address Book" (loads as "Address Manager", and then titles itself as "Address Book Browser - KAddress"), you'll see what I mean.

I'm not sure I understand. What do you mean by KMail address book? It doesn't have a separate one here. When I click the address book entry in the Tools menu it starts the KDE address book. I haven't done anything to configure it that way.

What version of KDE, KAddressbook and KMail are you using, BTW, and what distro?

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Original von k1mgy

How do you get the Address Book to link to KMail? I've already gone throuigh a difficult exercise getting Outlook addresses into the Address Book (KAddress). It would be a shame to have to enter them again, plus maintain the unecessary redundancy.

I don't think you'll have to. In fact, integration between the different parts is one of the strong points of KDE. KMail uses the data from KAddressbook, Kopete (the instant messenger) too. I think you're seeing some kind of misconfiguration.

In KDE 3.3, when I click the button labelled "..." right of the To: field then I get a popup with a tree view on the left side. The two top level elements are "Recent addresses" and "Other addresses". The latter one contains the email addresses from the entries in my KDE Addressbook... What do you get when you press that button?

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Original von k1mgy

I'm probably bitching and someone might come along and tell me to do it myself, or bark that it's free. My concern, however, is not just for me - but for KDE to become a serious and sustainable alternative to the other system. Something was missed here. Either it wasn't designed to integrate intentionally; it was overlooked; or the documentation needs to be updated. If there's a way to do what I suggest, I can't find it.

As I said, this normally works out-of-the-box. I would completely agree with you if the integration weren't already there...

One thing you could check is if the address book instance started from the Tools menu in KMail loads/saves its data from/to a different file than when starting it from the command line or the K Menu. The standard location is ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf

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Original von k1mgy

It is integrated, and it's sweet.

Good to hear it works now

I like KMail very much and want to use it with Linspire (Debian-based distro). Problem is that the address list icon is grayed out and there is no functionality or connection to import an address list. Can someone help with this? Thanks.

geoffcaplan, I hope you got your problem solved, I'm afraid I can't help.

However, back at the original topic:

The IS a problem with kaddressbook and the addresses which appear using the 'select' button in composer. I cannot get the address list in my address book to open using the 'select addressbook' dialog box in kmail 1.8.2; it only shows recent addresses from the list in kderc. My addressbook is the default 'resource-name' but 'resource-name' shows up blank using the select addressbook dialog box.

Is this a bug or is it only me having this problem?

i have the same problem. I find it very annoying.
Otherwise i really like kmail. Hope this gets fixed soon and that kubuntu updates it in their repos...

deech

I spotted the bug as well and I've fixed it for KDE 3.5.2. This release will be available around 24 March 2006.

When I had my brief experience with Linspire, I noted that the files weren't in all the standard places. That means, for example that in most distros I could find the address file in /home/myname/.kde/share/apps/kabc as std.vcf. Linspire, if I remember correctly moved it to a different folder. Not nice.

Make sure you have kde-pim (Kontact) installed, and not just kmail as well.