Bug 354400

I have identified precisely the same behaviour.  Auto-complete works fine for "recent addresses" and those "contacts found in your data" but does not seem to complete from the (akonadi) address books.

Just to be clear, I am running Kubuntu 15.10, KMail 5.0.2 and KDE Frameworks 5.15.0.

Same issue here: Only "Recent addresses" is working. If I click on the button right beside the entry field to select recipients in a separate window (German: "Auswählen..." Button), the full address book is shown and I can select addresses from there.

Kubuntu 15.10, KMail 5.0.2, KDE Frameworks 5.15.0, Locale: German

Same problem (Kubuntu 15.10, kmail 5.0.2, kontact 5.0.2)

The same here. does it on 3 machines with a kubuntu 15.10 install
I have backports enabled on mine and still doing it.

I can auto complete recent address but nothing from google address book or current emails
This makes it very hard to use, as well as convince people to switch to kde.

How to reproduce.
Install fresh copy 15.10, setup email and add google address book.
try type an address when creating new email.

I expect to see matching items.
What is see : NOTHING

If this is only an kubuntu issue please let me know so i can file a bug there

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

+1. Recent addresses are fine, Google Contacts all show up correctly in KAddressBook, but no autocomplete anymore in KMail composer.

KMail 5.0.2
KF 5.15.0
Kubuntu 15.10

Please test in 5.1 I fixed some bug in akonadisearch.

"Please test in 5.1 I fixed some bug in akonadisearch."

I use standard Kubuntu 15.10, which seems not to provide 5.1. How do I upgrade (I am not a Guru)?

Cheers, gl

You need to add "ppa:kubuntu-ppa" (and maybe "ppa:kubuntu-backports") to your repository. The version there is still 5.0.3, though, but 5.1 should make it there eventually.

In Arch with KF5 15.12 and plasma 5.5.3 this is still the case. 

p.

This is Kmail 5.1.1 btw.

Kubuntu 15.10 with backports, Plasma 5.5.3 and Frameworks 15.18.0 is still on KMail2 5.0.2, Applications 15.08.2. Can I ask which version of Applications 5.1 ships with? Is it in Applications 15.12.1?

I still have the bug, of course.

I think we will have to suffer until 16.04 is released. Ive switched to gnome and thunderbird. this is such a big bug. everyone and i mean every linux user uses email and to not be able to email an address-book contact from the to line... Really ppl

They have "Fixed" the problem but no one can test it. so if the fix didn’t work 16.04 is out of use aswell.

And linus torvald wanders why we cant get the desktop. Its because users cant wait this long for this.
Perhaps the admin, for us "stupid" users can explain how we can get the fix now rather than say it will be there eventually.

Ha ve an awesome day. sorry for the rant but over 6 months i cant work

Donovan, you do know you can access the address book by simply clicking the "Select" button next to the "To/CC/BCC" field and then searching for your contact that way?

You can also just open kaddressbook, find your contact there, and click their email address.

It's mildly inconvenient, especially in today's age, but come on, it's not like it prevents people from working (though it may add up to 3 minutes more to your work day).

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I send 300 emails a day.  And i have 10 support calls a day about it.  My staff that i FORCE to use linux all day.  (that say cant we use windows)  complain every day.  Im not a home user.  Im an IT support company.  The main reason i used kmail is that not even did the last version seach address book.  It also searched the actual emails.
So yes why dont i just stick with LTS.  Im a qt developer as well and need to stay current.
There are alotnof other reasons i stay current aswell. 
If you look at my bug reports. I had one about sast time not working.  Someone didnt fix it for 2 years.  So my calendar entries didnt work properly.  After a rant it took someone 1 hoir to fix.  I still had to wait 6 months for release.
So 3 mins a day for a normal person is 1 hour for me. 
But thia is not a rant place.  Even though im the one doing it.  Its a please pretty please fix. And let us know how to test. 






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-------- Original message --------
From: Michael D via KDE Bugzilla <bugzilla_noreply@kde.org> 
Date: 28/01/2016  18:28  (GMT+02:00) 
To: donovan@atstech.co.za 
Subject: [kmail2] [Bug 354400] In Kmail 5.0.2 autocompletion only shows
  recent email addresses but not stored emails in Kaddressbook 

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354400

--- Comment #14 from Michael D <nortexoid@gmail.com> ---
Donovan, you do know you can access the address book by simply clicking the
"Select" button next to the "To/CC/BCC" field and then searching for your
contact that way?

You can also just open kaddressbook, find your contact there, and click their
email address.

It's mildly inconvenient, especially in today's age, but come on, it's not like
it prevents people from working (though it may add up to 3 minutes more to your
work day).

I do not think that opening the addressbook is a valid workaround. 

A well done feature for auto-completion should   

- be usable to instantly open available addressbook entries (preferably with a configuration option to exclude some addressbooks to prevent privacy issues and needless clutter with big huge contact lists)  

- include addresses that are not in the addressbooks but have been answered to before (also configuration options within kmails settings are required) 

- be ahead of the competition by featuring configuration options for pre-filtering and pre-sorting the entries shown plus a quick access button for changing the order of appearance on the fly 

Being content with the limitations of a mediocre and buggy approach shouldn't suit KDE well. 
I would hope for a bit more inspiration and ambition. Thunderbird is old as and more or less abandoned but still does a better job in many areas as new and shiny kmail... Mild inconveniences can't be the place to settle on for a self acclaimed ambitious project like KDE. 

back to the bug: 
It's probably not helping but it seems like since the last updates (ARCH fully upgraded) the search doesn't work initially but after a while it suddenly starts working until closing kmail. 
Same after restarting kmail - sadly I can't see any useful pattern to report here. 

cheers, p.

selecting from "TO" button crashes akonodi resource 9 times out of ten for me...it's not much of a solution to this dreadful issue

I have just installed kubuntu 16.04

And it still doesn't work.
I really want to cry right now.

Is there ANYTHING i can do to get this working.
Please pretty please

Still broken. I'm adding contacts by accident now. Recents doesn't seem to update properly either.

BTW i can also confirm recent addresses are now ALSO not working.
not kmail is not even usable, atleast recent you could set to 2000 then it was ok after a while.

Recent addresses sort of work. Type in the recepient field (To, BCC, etc.) and then backspace to the beginning. Then type again and recents will show up. I suppose this qualifies as part of this bug.

Can confirm this behavior.
No recent addresses, no owncloud addresses through akonadi

Kubuntu 16.04, Kontact 5.1.3

I confirm Michael D #21 comment :
You need to type some letters, backspace to the beginning, and type again to get it working.
Kmail 5.1.3

Is nobody able (or willing) to finally fix this bug ? Aunt google tells this bug exists for years ?! Really ?
back to thunderbird, have fun playing with this toy, i need a working mail client

(In reply to AndreasH59 from comment #24)
> Is nobody able (or willing) to finally fix this bug ? Aunt google tells this
> bug exists for years ?! Really ?
> back to thunderbird, have fun playing with this toy, i need a working mail
> client

Ok bye :)

Well Laurent, it is not that easy to just say "bye". AndreasH59 is right. This bug is annoying if you like to use KMail in a productive environment with many contacts in your address-book. It annoys me too and I also have in the meanwhile Ubuntu (and Thunderbird) installed (but have to admit, that I still work mainly with Kubuntu and KMail). It is not only for that bug, there are plenty of bugs in Kubuntu. In KMail e.g. putting new words to the spelling dictionary does not work too. And, and, and.

I like Kubuntu more than Ubuntu, but it is sometimes hard to stay with Kubuntu.

On the other side, I know that most of you are doing this job for free and that this is free software. However, this worked in a previous version why not now anymore?

Cheers, gl

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Agreed. ive mentioned it all before.
My current next hope is that as soon as kde neon gets kde apps that it 
will work there.
Other than that i dont know.

there is something about kmail that makes me want to use it, but it 
UNUSABLE.
ofter the last update not even recent address works unless you backspace 
after starting to type.

I will personally pay someone for a few hours of work via paypal in 
order to fix this bug.
But after the fix i need a way to install it.
if anyone would like to accept my ofer please let me know

Regards

Donovan Hoare



On 10/05/2016 14:11, Gerhard Lehnhoff via KDE Bugzilla wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354400
>
> --- Comment #26 from Gerhard Lehnhoff <public@glehnhoff.de> ---
> Well Laurent, it is not that easy to just say "bye". AndreasH59 is right. This
> bug is annoying if you like to use KMail in a productive environment with many
> contacts in your address-book. It annoys me too and I also have in the
> meanwhile Ubuntu (and Thunderbird) installed (but have to admit, that I still
> work mainly with Kubuntu and KMail). It is not only for that bug, there are
> plenty of bugs in Kubuntu. In KMail e.g. putting new words to the spelling
> dictionary does not work too. And, and, and.
>
> I like Kubuntu more than Ubuntu, but it is sometimes hard to stay with Kubuntu.
>
> On the other side, I know that most of you are doing this job for free and that
> this is free software. However, this worked in a previous version why not now
> anymore?
>
> Cheers, gl
>

(In reply to Gerhard Lehnhoff from comment #26)
> Well Laurent, it is not that easy to just say "bye". AndreasH59 is right.

As I wrote in 
"Bug 357670 - KMail 16.04.0: Composer auto-completion fails on first try"
it fixed in qt 5.6.0
It works fine here.
So ok this bug annoying you but I can't fix all bug when it depends against qt or lower lib.


> This bug is annoying if you like to use KMail in a productive environment
> with many contacts in your address-book. It annoys me too and I also have in
> the meanwhile Ubuntu (and Thunderbird) installed (but have to admit, that I
> still work mainly with Kubuntu and KMail). It is not only for that bug,
> there are plenty of bugs in Kubuntu. In KMail e.g. putting new words to the
> spelling dictionary does not work too. And, and, and.

If you have some bug in spellchecking perhaps report it against sonnet component.
It's not because you have a bug in kmail that it's depend just against kmail.

> 
> I like Kubuntu more than Ubuntu, but it is sometimes hard to stay with
> Kubuntu.
> 
> On the other side, I know that most of you are doing this job for free and
> that this is free software. However, this worked in a previous version why
> not now anymore?

Bug ?

> 
> Cheers, gl

I have a little tired to see comment as
"Is nobody able (or willing) to finally fix this bug ? Aunt google tells this bug exists for years ?! Really ?"

Yes kmail and other kde application or opensource application has some bugs, and indeed we don't have 24h to work by day on application. It's during free time.
And sometime we don't have a solution because it's a bug in qt or a bug that we can't reproduce.
For this bug I investigate in Bug 357670 and I didn't find a solution.

It works fine here.

I will take time to install another distro on my computer to evaluate it.
But for sure if it will easy to fix bug as it it already fixed.

Regards

(In reply to Laurent Montel from comment #28)
> I have a little tired to see comment as
> "Is nobody able (or willing) to finally fix this bug ? Aunt google tells
> this bug exists for years ?! Really ?"
> 
> Yes kmail and other kde application or opensource application has some bugs,
> and indeed we don't have 24h to work by day on application. It's during free
> time.
> And sometime we don't have a solution because it's a bug in qt or a bug that
> we can't reproduce.
> For this bug I investigate in Bug 357670 and I didn't find a solution.
> 
> It works fine here.

I experienced the same bug (kmail not finding email addresses from kaddressbook) on a fresh install of Kubuntu 16.04. It turns out the binary files for akonadi search (package libkf5akonadisearch-bin) were not installed. After installing the specific package and allowing kontact to index my PIM data, everything now works as it should (except for the typing an initial character and backspacing to bring up the search results).

So maybe this is a kubuntu packaging/dependency issue? I must also mention that I had akonadi_baloo_indexer (package baloo_utils) installed, which is from KDE 4 and most probably conflicts with the KF5 akonadi search. (This is a fresh install, not upgrade from previous ubuntu version). I had to manually remove that package and its dependencies.

I'm on a Kubuntu 16.04 installation (upgraded from 15.04)

I can confirm that installing libkf5akonadisearch-bin brings back the auto-completion for contacts in KAdressbook; the completion of recent addresses also works. For the completion to start, it is required to enter something in the recipient field and backspace to the beginning.

In my case, it was not required to uninstall baloo or trigger a reindex of PIM data.

Is someone else affected by this bug, ...
a) who is not using Kubuntu.
b) for whom installing libkf5akonadisearch-bin does not bring back the autocompletion?

Well, I am running Debian stable 8.4 with KDE 4.14.2 and KMail 4.14.1.
At home (i386), I have updated from version to version, for years.
At work (amd64), I had done a fresh install on a new box in January 2016.
The bug appears on both computers (recent addresses work, but not address book).

There is no package "libkf5akonadisearch-bin" in Debian stable.
It is categorised as "experimental" at:
https://packages.debian.org/experimental/libkf5akonadisearch-bin

Hence, this does not help me, unfortunately.
Patiently awaiting a solution for about a year now :)
Thanks for your attention, time and work.

I was previously running kubuntu 14.04 with kmail 4.13.3 and everything was running perfectly. Do you have baloo installed and is akonadi_baloo_indexer running?

This bug started with 15.04 but got worse with 15.10 but atleast in 15 .10 recent addresses worked.
On 16.04, nothing works but if you start typing a email. then backspace to begin and start again it will search recent.

testing on 14.04 will not help

(In reply to jrohwer from comment #29)
> (In reply to Laurent Montel from comment #28)
> > I have a little tired to see comment as
> > "Is nobody able (or willing) to finally fix this bug ? Aunt google tells
> > this bug exists for years ?! Really ?"
> > 
> > Yes kmail and other kde application or opensource application has some bugs,
> > and indeed we don't have 24h to work by day on application. It's during free
> > time.
> > And sometime we don't have a solution because it's a bug in qt or a bug that
> > we can't reproduce.
> > For this bug I investigate in Bug 357670 and I didn't find a solution.
> > 
> > It works fine here.
> 
> I experienced the same bug (kmail not finding email addresses from
> kaddressbook) on a fresh install of Kubuntu 16.04. It turns out the binary
> files for akonadi search (package libkf5akonadisearch-bin) were not
> installed. After installing the specific package and allowing kontact to
> index my PIM data, everything now works as it should (except for the typing
> an initial character and backspacing to bring up the search results).
> 

What must we do to get contact to reindex after installing, or does it do it itself.
I have just installed and will give feedback

(In reply to Donovan Hoare from comment #34)

> What must we do to get contact to reindex after installing, or does it do it
> itself.
> I have just installed and will give feedback

On the terminal just do
$ akonadictl restart

Then:
$ ps -ef |grep akonadi

If you see a process "/usr/bin/akonadi_indexing_agent" it should be good and will index by itself. May take a while depending on the amount of email you have.

(In reply to jrohwer from comment #32)
> I was previously running kubuntu 14.04 with kmail 4.13.3 and everything was
> running perfectly. Do you have baloo installed and is akonadi_baloo_indexer
> running?

The "akonadi_baloo_indexer" was not running in my KDE.

Automatically installed Debian packages (only these) were:
- libbaloocore4
- libbaloofiles4
- libbaloopim4
- libbalooqueryparser4
- libbalooxapian4
- libbaloowidgets4

Following your suggestion, I additionally installed these:
- baloo4
- baloo-utils (automatically, dependency)

Still no "akonadi_baloo_indexer" process running.
A restart did help. IT WORKS NOW! :))
The process view shows "baloo_file" and "akonadi_baloo_indexer".

Remark 1:

The tick at "Enable Desktop Search" has to be set at:
| KDE System Settings | Workspace Appearance and Behaviour | Desktop Search
It was set automatically after having had installed the "baloo4" package.

Remark 2:

For convenience in configuration, I afterwards also installed the package:
- kde-config-baloo-advanced

However, it is not really needed, so that I removed it again.

Remark 3:

After my restart, I got this authentication dialogue requesting a password:

"An application is attempting to perform an action that requires privileges.
Authentication is required to perform this action."
Action: Folder Watch Limit

It seems to be related to the process "kde_baloo_filewatch_limit",
which showed up in the process view, but disappeared after some seconds.

This issue (bug?) is described here:
https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=127876

Remark 4:

I have filed a bug report for the "kmail" package to Debian.

Thank you very much!
Christian Heller

(In reply to Christian Heller from comment #36)

My joy was premature.

When typing a name, kmail offers me email addresses from the categories:
- Recent Addresses
- Contacts found in your data

But the address book is still missing :(

I installed "libkf5akonadisearch-bin" on Kubuntu 15.10. Address Completion works now!

Success. Thanks to Andreas T.




. (In reply to Andreas T from comment #30)
> I'm on a Kubuntu 16.04 installation (upgraded from 15.04)
> 
> I can confirm that installing libkf5akonadisearch-bin brings back the
> auto-completion for contacts in KAdressbook; the completion of recent
> addresses also works. For the completion to start, it is required to enter
> something in the recipient field and backspace to the beginning.
> 
> In my case, it was not required to uninstall baloo or trigger a reindex of
> PIM data.
> 
> Is someone else affected by this bug, ...
> a) who is not using Kubuntu.
> b) for whom installing libkf5akonadisearch-bin does not bring back the
> autocompletion?

I installed "libkf5akonadisearch-bin" on Kubuntu 15.10. Address Completion works, also after upgrade to 16.04.



I installed "libkf5akonadisearch-bin" on Kubuntu 15.10. Address Completion works now! Success. Thanks to Andreas T. . (In reply to Andreas T from comment #30) > I'm on a Kubuntu 16.04 installation (upgraded from 15.04)
> 
> I can confirm that installing libkf5akonadisearch-bin brings back the
> auto-completion for contacts in KAdressbook; the completion of recent
> addresses also works. For the completion to start, it is required to enter
> something in the recipient field and backspace to the beginning.
> 
> In my case, it was not required to uninstall baloo or trigger a reindex of
> PIM data.
> 
> Is someone else affected by this bug, ...
> a) who is not using Kubuntu.
> b) for whom installing libkf5akonadisearch-bin does not bring back the
> autocompletion?

I have kubuntu 16.04, clean install.
I have installed libkf5akonadisearch-bin and now quick search and search in messages work again (they were not working since kubuntu 15.04). But... address completion is not working, only recent addresses are shown. (I have google contacts).

(In reply to Gerhard Lehnhoff from comment #39)
> I installed "libkf5akonadisearch-bin" on Kubuntu 15.10. Address Completion
> works, also after upgrade to 16.04.
> 
> 
> 
> I installed "libkf5akonadisearch-bin" on Kubuntu 15.10. Address Completion
> works now! Success. Thanks to Andreas T. . (In reply to Andreas T from
> comment #30) > I'm on a Kubuntu 16.04 installation (upgraded from 15.04)
> > 
> > I can confirm that installing libkf5akonadisearch-bin brings back the
> > auto-completion for contacts in KAdressbook; the completion of recent
> > addresses also works. For the completion to start, it is required to enter
> > something in the recipient field and backspace to the beginning.
> > 
> > In my case, it was not required to uninstall baloo or trigger a reindex of
> > PIM data.
> > 
> > Is someone else affected by this bug, ...
> > a) who is not using Kubuntu.
> > b) for whom installing libkf5akonadisearch-bin does not bring back the
> > autocompletion?

(In reply to Gerhard Lehnhoff from comment #39)
> I installed "libkf5akonadisearch-bin" on Kubuntu 15.10. Address Completion
> works, also after upgrade to 16.04.

I was wrong. Address completion only works, ...

(a) if "libkf5akonadisearch-bin" has been installed,
(b) if I type something in the To-field (not working), 
(c) than go back completely with Backspace, 
(d) and then type again. 

Then it works for both, Google Address book and Recent Emails.

The issue with autocompletion is still here on kmail 5.2.1 (kdeapps 16.04.01), qt 5.6.0, plasma 5.6.4 (gentoo kde overlay)

The workaround that involves hitting backspace seems to point to a input form issue, but it is only a wild guess :)

I can confirm this issue here as well as the exact work-around from comment #41 to delete till beginning of text input field. Thanks for taking the time for testing this.

I can confirm this behaviour (auto-completion from Kaddressbook working only after typing-backslash-to-the-beginning-and-typing-again) on OpenSUSE Leap 42.1, KDE Applications 16.04, KF5.22, Qt 5.6 (well, everything KDE/Qt-related mostly bleeding edge really...).

For me, on Kubuntu 16.04, this solutions works only for recent addresses.

Disabling the use of recent addresses helps in my case (kmail 5.1.3 on Kubuntu 16.04). i don't need to type - delete again - type to enable autocompletion. Which also hints towards recent addresses being the bad guy...

confirmation of Martin Tlustos comment # 46 "Disabling the use of recent addresses helps"

running openSuse Leap, Kmail 5.2.1

With KDE Updates from Backports no changes.

- Recent Addresses only with type->Backslash->type behavior
- Addresses from other sources (owncloud) not working

Kontact Version 5.1.3
KDE Plasma Version 5.6.4
KDE Frameworks 5.22.0
Qt 5.5.1 (kompiliert gegen 5.5.1)

Struggling with this bug a week now after fresh installation of Kubuntu 16.04LTS.  
I tried all options as suggested in various comments above with no result. 

libkf5akonadisearch-bin is installed.  

Still the bug is there:
- recent addresses works only after Type in TO field --->Delete it ---> Type again 
- addresses from other sources like Google not working

Kontact Version 5.1.3 
KDE Plasma Version 5.6.4 
KDE Frameworks 5.22.0 
Qt 5.5.1
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Guys if your reading this, you will notice that the problem has been 
around for ages.
With no planned fix in site.

Switch to Thunderbird.
There is far less problems.

I actually only find one thing annoying and that is wen you send an 
email it stays in the forground until its complete.
Ill live with that to have contacts



On 29/06/2016 10:36, GK via KDE Bugzilla wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354400
>
> GK <gkourtev@gmail.com> changed:
>
>             What    |Removed                     |Added
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                   CC|                            |gkourtev@gmail.com
>
> --- Comment #49 from GK <gkourtev@gmail.com> ---
> Struggling with this bug a week now after fresh installation of Kubuntu
> 16.04LTS.
> I tried all options as suggested in various comments above with no result.
>
> libkf5akonadisearch-bin is installed.
>
> Still the bug is there:
> - recent addresses works only after Type in TO field --->Delete it ---> Type
> again
> - addresses from other sources like Google not working
>
> Kontact Version 5.1.3
> KDE Plasma Version 5.6.4
> KDE Frameworks 5.22.0
> Qt 5.5.1
> 4.4.0-28-generic
>

I can confirm this bug for years now. I have kmail 5.1.3 and only recent addresses are working, although completion order is set to FIRST search CardDav and THEN recent addresses.

The select button next to the address bar is showing me all my CardDav contacts.

Please fix this because kmail rocks besides this! Thanks :-)

In my Debian (jessie or stretch) installing package kdepim (and reboot) solved this problem.

(In reply to kubik from comment #52)
> In my Debian (jessie or stretch) installing package kdepim (and reboot)
> solved this problem.

Edit: Another package is needed: baloo-utils :-)

This bug is still in kmail 5.1.3, KDE framework 5.24.0 :(
Any plan to fix it ?

Indeed it is still here as well and no solution found. Very annoying bug.
Kubuntu 16.04
Plasma 5.6.5

Ubuntu 16.10 (Kmail 5.2.3) : still present

Using KDE Applications 16.08.2 and KF 5.26.0 on openSUSE Tumbleweed, I cannot reproduce this bug anymore. As far as I'm concern, it seems to be fixed (I didn't check for a while, so couldn't say which version offered the fix).

Can anybody with recent release reproduce this bug anymore?

It's fixed for me, I am running KDE Frameworks 5.27

I upgraded to kubuntu 16.10 and it is still not working. It is kmail 5.2.3. Since which version should this bug be fixed again?

For me, the bug is fixed with 5.3.0 (KDE Applications 16.08), but it might have been fixed earlier.

Iv just installed mint18 KDE Plasma 5.6.5 kontact/kmail 5.1.3 and iv also got this bug. I suspect it is also what is causing another problem with the "allow HTML/remote content from individual contacts" for me.

Is there a definitive fix for this as iv read the thread and there are a lot of suggestions so im not sure what to try as i dont like to mess around to much as i tend to break my OS.

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The bug ha been there for years now, with no one fixing it.
I would advise you stop hassling yourself and just switch to another 
email client

Im using thunderbird, even though i prefer kontact.
After some tweeks it works rather well.

Donovan Hoare

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> 
> The bug ha been there for years now, with no one fixing it.
> I would advise you stop hassling yourself and just switch to another 
> email client
> 
> Im using thunderbird, even though i prefer kontact.
> After some tweeks it works rather well.
> 
> Donovan Hoare

Id love to but http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/cant-find-an-email-client-that-works-4175593341/

Its more like stop trying to use KDE by the looks of it. Thx

Can someone confirm the bug still being there for Kmail >5.3.0 (KDE Applications > 16.08)? Right now, we have only 2 people stating that it is fixed for these latter versions, so unless someone confirms the bug still being there, I think it's fair to say the bug is likely being fixed, but we'd need more confirmation to actually be sure. 

If you don't have 5.3.0 installed, the best way would be to fire up a live USB Neon image, set up your accounts and try to send an e-mail and see if the bug is still triggered.

On KDE Neon Developer Edition (git stable), the bug is gone. I'm not at my home computer at the moment, so I can't check the version, but one could check the repos to determine the current kmail build.

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It is working fine for me, KDE Neon user edition. I'm away from my laptop so I can't verify the version.

On November 16, 2016 2:42:03 AM EST, bugzilla_noreply@kde.org wrote:
>https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354400
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>--- Comment #64 from flyos@mailoo.org ---
>Can someone confirm the bug still being there for Kmail >5.3.0 (KDE
>Applications > 16.08)? Right now, we have only 2 people stating that it
>is
>fixed for these latter versions, so unless someone confirms the bug
>still being
>there, I think it's fair to say the bug is likely being fixed, but we'd
>need
>more confirmation to actually be sure. 
>
>If you don't have 5.3.0 installed, the best way would be to fire up a
>live USB
>Neon image, set up your accounts and try to send an e-mail and see if
>the bug
>is still triggered.
>
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some info regarding progress with kmail/kontacts here https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2341803&p=13564260#post13564260 so might be some movement going on. 
Ignore this if its already in the backport, i dont know how to check that really without switching it on.

For me contact completion from the address book was not working at all. It was fixed by right clicking on "Personal Contacts" in the Akonadi Console (akonadiconsole) and selecting "Clear Akonadi Cache". I'm on openSUSE Leap 42.2 with KMail 5.3.0 and KDE Frameworks 5.26.0.

I confirm that this solution works for me. I use Ubuntu 16.10 with KMail 5.2.3 and KDE Framework 5.26.0

Right click on "Personal Contacts" in the Akonadi Console (akonadiconsole) and select "Clear Akonadi Cache" !

-:)

hmm , where exactly is that option ?
https://i.sli.mg/OBcKSF.png

You need to go to the "Browser" tab (your screenshot shows the "Agents" tab).

Cheers, but did not work. I still have to write at least 1 letter in the TO field and then rub it out before it will auto fill the address from my personal address book :( 

Just had a large update for kmail, akonadi, pim etc etc so thought it might be fixed but unfortunately not in my case.

mint 18
plasma 5.8.4
framework 5.28.0
QT 5.6.1
kernal 4.4.0-53
Kmail 5.2.3


But thx.

Ops , my mistake. It had removed ALL my personal address after cache reset & reboot so i re-imported them again and seems to work now.

Thank you very much.

I have Kubuntu 17.04 with KMail 5.2.3. As far as I aw aware, these are the latest. THIS PROBLEM STILL EXISTS. If Kubuntu/KMail wish to be taken seriously then this needs to be addressed FAST. For now I am advising all my clients to avoid KMail (and therefore Kubuntu)

Reprodcable - always

Kubuntu 17.04
Frameworks 5.31.0
QT 5.7.1

Unfortunately, Kubuntu is not as up-to-date as it has been. It seems the version of KDE PIM provided in Zetsy is from KDE Applications 16.04, so from a year ago. The latest version of Kmail is 5.4.3 (with an imminent update with KDE Applications 17.04).

Using the feedback from this bug, it seems to have been fixed around KDE Applications 16.08 (Kmail 5.3.0).

Thank you for this update. Where can I find 5.4.3 to download please?

Sorry, I don't know. It is not provided in the Kubuntu Backports PPA. You can try to get it from KDE Neon, but I suspect you will need a whole bunch of deps including QtWebEngine, so you might be better off directly trying Neon (or another distribution) if this is important for you.

Scanning all the comments, it seems to work now, or at least to be no longer a KMail bug, but a distribution problem. If you think I'm wrong because a very recent version of KMail (version 16.12.0 or later?) still fails to autocomplete although you have the required packages installed, please tell me so and I'll reopen. In that case, please at least try to convince me that this is not a downstream problem.

I managed to implement KMail 5.4.3 but this did not seem to fix the issue. However, very shortly after that I received a flurry of updates via the updater and it started working after that.

I suspect the bunch of updates you had was the recent Kubuntu updates specifically for KDE PIM (finally bumping it to a recent release, they probably had issues with QtWebEngine), so it would appear that up-to-date versions are not affected anymore.

It is possible for older versions (for example in Debian) to install akonadi-backend-postgresql insteat akonadi-backend-mysql. It seems to have helped me.