Bug 330983 - using kaddressbook to store identities
Summary: using kaddressbook to store identities
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: kmail2
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 4.11.5
Platform: Debian testing Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2014-02-10 14:48 UTC by Mathieu Roy
Modified: 2014-02-19 07:45 UTC (History)
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Description Mathieu Roy 2014-02-10 14:48:31 UTC
kaddressbook along with kmail is convenient to share addressbooks over several computers and mail clients, for instance in my case through ownCloud.

However, so far I found no way to share kmail identities. Moving around ~/.kde/share/config/emailidentities seems a no go to me (not convenient, kmail specific, maybe even session/install specific).

 Is there any reason not to store identities (from what I gather, a .vcf is produced anyway) in the addressbook? I understand some of the content in ~/.kde/share/config/emailidentities is too specific to be shared. But at least, all the identities vcard could be added to the addressbook, with a special field mentioning they are also to be used as identity. So any client that can handle shared address book have access to them.

Unless I'm mistaken, for a minimal amount of change and zero extra conf for the user, we have some identity share feature that can easily be added in other clients. The alternative would be to use a specific addressbook for identities but that would require many changes (for instance, so far, ownCloud provides one addressbook per user, not two) and is probably not worth it. 


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Laurent Montel 2014-02-10 18:08:49 UTC
All is specific kmail
We have: folder/ReplyTo/MailTransport etc.
All is kmail/kdepim specific so not vcard.