Re: kmail and address book

[Peter Nuttall <p.s.nuttall@dur.ac.uk>]

On Wednesday 22 Dec 2004 13:48, Alan Chandler wrote:
> 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?
>
The way you expected to it to be. In the spirit of "a picture is worth a 
thousand words" I have put a screen shot of my system  on the web at:

http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/~psn/KDE/snapshot5.png

> > 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
>

I'm stumped. The only thing you seem to be doing differently to me is that I 
have my people in groups and you might not. You could try looking for the 
problem on the kde bug tracking system at bugs.kde.org . If nothing else, 
they could help a lot more. 

Sorry I can't help more,

Pete