I can't seem to get KMAIL to use anything from my address book. When I start to compose a new message I click on the "select" button to the right of the entry box for the To address. This brings up a selection box entitled "Select Recipient". The only choice that show anything is "All" which displays a list of email addresses that I've recently typed in manually. The selections for "Default Address Book" and "Distribution Lists" show nothing at all. The "Add as" buttons are all greyed out and only "Cancel" can be selected.

If I go to the "Contacts" tab of the Kontact application it shows one entry called "Personal Contacts". The actions "New Contact" and "New Group" both do the same thing - they just add a new contact to the existing "Personal Contacts" list. None of this shows up under "Select Recipient" when I compose a new email.

What do I have to do to create a distribution list with this software? I'm running Kontact 4.4.11 under KDE 4.6.5.

TIA

-Jim Lane

perhaps it helps when you import your (old) address list (vcard perhaps, in ~/.kde4/share/apps/kabc)
I remember that I had to do something like that.

I don't have any addresses in VCF format or anything under an application called KABC (what is that BTW). The only thing I have to import is a CSV file that I exported some years ago from a previous version of KDE. I can import that and have done so. The problem is that I can't add groups that address list and it doesn't show up in the KMAIL composer anywhere. So my question is where does KMAIL find the addresses and distribution lists in the "Select Recipient" function?

-Jim

KABC is a shorthand form for KAddressbook, the program that handles the email addresses (even in KMail). That said, your KDE PIM version is quite old (several years), so the issue might have been solved in later releases (I can't be sure, as I don't use distribution lists).