On Tuesday 20 January 2009 12:48:43 Neal Becker wrote:
I just created a distr list in addressbook, and tried to send to it
in
kmail. This did not work (tried to send to list(a)gmail.com instead). Then
opened up addressbook again, and the dist list I created is missing.
I'm still exploring the new version. I created one in kaddressbook (from
within kontact), and when I opened kaddressbook as a standalone I could see
the list, although it appeared to have lost the last address I added - not
sure about this: it might be connected with my next question.
Can someone please explain what is meant by "Email address to use in this
list:" - does it mean for return address, or something else? The address I
chose there (my test list were all to addresses that would come to me) is the
one that got dropped.
Distribution lists are certainly different from the old models. It used to be
that if I put the distlist name into a mail's To: field it would expand,
sending the message to all recipients in the list. This broke a few months
back (I can't recall the actual version) but I'm pleased to see that it is
working again.
A method that you may find more satisfactory, as you can check the recipients
while you are doing it (they don't show in the previous method) is to select
your distlist in kaddressbook. Then, in the right-hand panel you will see a
link with the name of the list. Click on that and an email form will open
with the list entered.
HTH
Anne