Kmail cannot send to groups

[David Masover]

Binary package hint: kdepim

There are several related issues here:

When attempting to send to a group, the group is not available for autocompletion. (This worked with the equivalent "Distribution List" in Kubuntu 9.10.) Selecting it in the "Select Recipient" dialog adds it as text to the "to" field -- which is not expanded at ANY point. Pressing send at this point results in a bounced email, as it was attempting to use the name of the list as an email address, without ever expanding to the actual contacts.

That alone is a problem, but I dug a little deeper. Expanding the "distribution list" in Kontact yields what appears to be an empty list -- or rather, a list of seven empty recipients.

I've attached a screenshot to illustrate this. Will someone please explain how it is that I have these applications open side-by-side, clearly talking about the same list, yet one can see it, and one can't?

This is documented (somewhat) here, I think:

http://userbase.kde.org/KAddressBook#Status_of_this_release

That means someone at KDE decided that this severe of a regression was acceptable for a release. Really? I'm trying to be polite, but how does THAT make it out the door?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: kmail 4:4.4.2-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu May 13 17:11:36 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kdepim

[Serge Gélinas (serge-gelinas)]

Found temporary solution:
>From Kmail select an address
>Choose your group and click plus sign
>You will see entire list
>Click on first email and go to the last
>Hold shift key and click the last email. Your will select all
>Drag and drop the selected list in kmail mail field

Et Voila

[David Masover (ninja-slaphack)]

Slight problem there: The list has the right number of people, but with that "plus sign" view, it's also entirely blank addresses. I can't add them (or adding them has no effect), and don't seem to be able to drag them anywhere.

[Serge Gélinas (serge-gelinas)]

Sorry, can't reproduce your problem. Here, my groups(imported from tb, Im new converted from) is fully available after adding akonadi-ressource in Kde ressources.
Can you recreate new group with some address and see if same problem occur?
    If yes, is akonadi-ressource in place in Kde ressources(advanced system conf)?
        If yes, something wrong with your db or mysql.

Regards,

[Toby Dickenson (toby-tarind)]

I can confirm this problem.

The page linked in the first post suggests this is fixed in KDE 4.4.3.

[Toby Dickenson (toby-tarind)]

....however 4.4.4 from https://edge.launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ppa/ still shows the same problem :-(

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Hi there!

Thanks for reporting this bug! Your bug seems to be a problem with the KDE program itself, and not with our KDE packages. While we appreciate your issue, it would be better if it was tracked at https://bugs.kde.org, so that the KDE developers can deal with this speedily and have direct communication with you as the reporter for more effective debugging.

Thanks!