On Wednesday 14 July 2010 01:02:37 Timothy Murphy wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
>> I'd like to create (and use) a Distribution List.
>>
>> My setup is slightly complicated, though not I think unusual.
>> I'm actually running IMAP to access email on my server
>> from my laptop.
>> I am running Fedora-13 on my laptop, with kdepim-4.4.4,
>> but am running CentOS-5.5 on my server, with kdepim-3.5.4.
>
> I have a very similar setup. However I use IMAP only for mail access -
> not to
> serve addresses and calendar. If you are serving them, your experience
> will be different to mine.
Thanks very much for your response.
I probably did not explain my setup clearly.
I collect email on my desktop from 3 public mail servers (such as gmail).
I run dovecot on the desktop,
which allows me to read the email (with kmail) on my laptop.
So I suppose I am running a mail server in some sense on my desktop.
But I don't accept email on the desktop from outside my system,
which is what I would normally think of as characterising a mail server.
In that case you are running both mail server and client on the same system -
which isn't a problem.
>> Is there actually any way of setting up a distribution list
>> within this setup?
>
> Assuming that your addressbook is akonadi-controlled, simply Add a Group.
I'm not sure how one tells if KAddressBook is "akonadi-controlled".
In any case, File=>New=>New Group in KAddressBook is greyed out.
(I don't see Add a Group as an option anywhere.)
I notice I don't have the KAddressBook handbook or manual on my system,
though I have yum-installed both kdepim and kdepim-devel .
(As I mentioned, my version of kdepim is 4.4.4-1 .)
OK - it sounds as though you may have somehow managed to by-pass the migration
- the first thing is to find out whether you have any records in
~/.local/share/contacts. If you have, your records have been migrated. If
not, I'll help you through getting your old records into a new akonadi-
controlled addressbook. Be aware that nepomuk must be running - you can
disable strigi if you find resource problems, though.
You'll find lots of issues documented on these UserBase pages, but check the
directory I mentioned first, and if you aren't sure which steps apply to you
we should be able to sort it out, with that answer.
http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi
http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi_4.4/Troubleshooting
http://userbase.kde.org/KAddressBook
http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi_and_AddressBook
Anne
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