Re: kmail and address book
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 09:06, Peter Nuttall wrote:
> 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.
...
>
> 1) what version of kde are you running? What you describe is correct for
> 3.3, which is the version in sid.
I am running KDE 3.3.1, the latest from Debian Unstable.
I am confused as to what you mean here - "What I describe" means the way I
actually have it work, or the way I expected it to be?
>
> 2) are you saving the address book after making changes? That has burnt me
> once or twice.
Oh yes, I can call it up as an independent application and see the addresses
--
Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win. --Gandhi
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