Re: kmail and address book
On Wednesday 22 Dec 2004 08:44, Alan Chandler wrote:
> Although I have been using kmail for a long time, I have only recently
> started to look at using the address book.
>
> kaddressbook has been set up with a few entries in it.
>
> If I go to kmail tools menu and select "address book", I open
> kaddressbook and can select entries from it and use it to send a message.
>
> However, when I compose a message from scratch, I would expect to hit the
> button with the three dots on the right hand side to bring up a dialog
> box that lets me select an address from the address book.
This is what happens on my system.
> Instead it
> gives me a list of recent addresses but no entries, or indication of how
> to get to the book.
>
> Is this the correct behaviour? If not, how can I change it? (my .kde
> directory is quite old, so it maybe that its got a wrong setting
> somewhere which the current software doesn't allow me to change).
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two questions:
1) what version of kde are you running? What you describe is correct for
3.3, which is the version in sid.
2) are you saving the address book after making changes? That has burnt me
once or twice.
Pete
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