On Friday October 18 2002 12:53 pm, mark wrote: > Well, a number of you have responded, and obviously I didn't make my > problem clear. > > KMail 1.3.1, KDE 2.2-11 > (Yes, as soon as I have spare time, I'm upgrading my kernel, and then > upgrading KDE...I'm too busy trying to make some money, having been caught > in the "recession" for well over a year) > > At any rate, I did all the stuff, created the list in Kaddressbook, but: > if I click to create a new email from KMail, no matter which of the four > options in "configure KMail"->appearance->addressbook" I use, > > 1) in no case does it display the mailing list name, regardless of > whether I hit the ellipses (the three periods), or the addressbook on the > toolbar; only individual names & email addresses are displayed, and > > 2) if, instead, I bring up the KAdressbook GUI, and select the mailing > list name, which *does* show up here, when I click on "send email", the > only thing that happens is that it brings the mail client - the base KMail > window, to the foreground, and does not open up a new > email-editing/creating window.
I am still not clear what you mean by "mailing list name". Do you mean distribution list (in Kmail jargon) where put one alias that actuallly send the e-mail to a buch of different addresses? Or do you mean a mailing list address such as [EMAIL PROTECTED]? As far as I remember, that version of Kmail/KDE/Kaddressbook does not even have a distribution list capability. If you want the later, then it's no different than just putting an entry in addressbook. > Also, I am unable to choose the order of the addressbook listings: for > example, I cannot say "sort *all* of them in alpha order (bringing up the > addressbook gui, sometimes seems like random order), to ignore the quotes > that surround some usernames, or to tell it to ignore case. > > It appears that the last is not a bug, but a wishlist item, and I can live > with that. However, as I said, neither gui even displays the name of any > list I have created. > > Finally, why would I want to have to change to another folder, just to send > out an email to a mailing list? Almost all the time, I am responding to > something, or sitting there, and having thought or read something, want to > send out a new email. You don't have too, if you don't want to. You can always type the address manually. I am just saying it's one feature that KMail has, because for me, for example, I put all my Redhat-List e-mails to one folder. Now if I am in that folder, after reading a whole bunch of emails from the list, and I decided I want to send something to the list, when I click New Message, I can have the redhat-list address automatically filled out, and the Identity that I set for Redhat mailing list automatically used. Since I used different identities/email adress for different mailing-list, this is very useful for me. In fact, this is the reason I switched back to KMail after having tried Evolution. RDB > Are my complaints clearer? > > mark -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
