Same here; however I've got no "addressbook", only addresses found automatically, like "recently used"; and my "testing" might be 3-weeks old like. Even it's a bug it's a minor inconvenience to me, because of this not so troublesome workaround already described.
Chris On Wednesday, September 7, 2016 4:42:44 PM CEST Andy G Wood wrote: > I have exactly the same problem as Andy reports with all my addressbooks > (which include LDAP) ... and came up with the same work around. > > Reported from an up-to-date Debian testing system. > > > Hi, > > > > ...since quite a while (after switching to kdepim 5.x I guess), my > > composer recipient auto-completion has some minor problems. > > > > When composing a new message and starting to type a recipient name in the > > "To:" field, no auto-completion occurs (let's say I type "Mic" to search > > for my colleague "Michael" - nothing happens). > > > > *But* if I delete the typed characters again using backspace and re-type > > the same string (type BS,BS,BS, M,i,c) in the To: field, auto-completion > > works over all my kontact resources ("Michael" is found). > > > > Btw - I only have CardDav/SOGo addressbooks. > > > > Has anyone observed a similar behaviour (and solved it?). > > > > Thanks and regards, > > > > Andy