Bug 316860 - Recent Addresses no longer appear in the Select Recipient dialog
Summary: Recent Addresses no longer appear in the Select Recipient dialog
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: kmail2
Classification: Applications
Component: composer (show other bugs)
Version: 4.10.1
Platform: Slackware Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2013-03-16 19:50 UTC by Woodsman
Modified: 2017-01-07 21:48 UTC (History)
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Description Woodsman 2013-03-16 19:50:24 UTC
In a Compose window, after pressing the Select button, the Select Recipient dialog no longer shows the list of Recent Addresses.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a Compose window.
2. Press the Select button.
3. Verify the Select Recipient dialog does not contain the list of Recent Addresses.


Actual Results:  
The Select Recipient dialog does not include the Recent Addresses list.

Expected Results:  
The Select Recipient dialog should include the Recent Addresses list

This always worked in KMail1. A nominal work-around is using the type-ahead feature in the To: text box, but users can't always remember an email address.

In the KMail1 Select Recipient dialog users saw something like this:

=====================
All
Default Address Book
Personal Contacts
Distribution Lists
Recent Addressess <- This does not appear
=====================

The KMail1 dialog had a button at the top to filter which list the user wanted. The default was All, but the user could change the filter.

Not having the Recent Addresses list in the Select Recipient dialog is cumbersome to non enterprise users who have no need for full scale contact lists.

The Recent Addresses list is present as can be verified by using the type-ahead feature or in Settings -> Composer -> General -> Edit Recent Addresses.

I suspect the regression occurred with the move to the akonadi backend. I'm guessing the Select Recipient dialog is now expected to be populated only with akonadi resources. The previous code for grabbing the Recent Addresses list from the kmail2rc file was inadvertently forgotten.
Comment 1 Laurent Montel 2013-03-18 07:09:30 UTC
YEs it's right you can't see recent contact here.
Will look at if I can do something.
Comment 2 Woodsman 2013-03-18 14:54:32 UTC
Great, thanks. Let me know if I can help test. :)
Comment 3 Denis Kurz 2016-09-24 18:20:26 UTC
This bug has only been reported for versions before 4.14, which have been unsupported for at least two years now. Can anyone tell if this bug still present?

If noone confirms this bug for a Framework-based version of kmail2 (version 5.0 or later, as part of KDE Applications 15.12 or later), it gets closed in about three months.
Comment 4 Denis Kurz 2017-01-07 21:48:15 UTC
Just as announced in my last comment, I close this bug. If you encounter it again in a recent version (at least 5.0 aka 15.08), please open a new one unless it already exists. Thank you for all your input.