Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1786 mails)

[John <newsgrp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Will,

On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:46:01 Will Stephenson wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 November 2011 12:58:08 John wrote:
> > We have opensuse 11.4 and have been using KDE as the desktop over many
> > suse releases.
 
> > The problem is that my wife is active on a number of community groups and
> > needs to send a considerable variety of emails to various groups or
> > sub-groups  Early on she had distribution lists setup in Kmail and all
> > was working OK. That was quite a while ago.
> >
> > In the past couple of years we have moved through opensuse versions to
> > 11.4 and upgrading KDE on the way to v4.6.5 with Kontact 1.13.6 & Kmail
> > 1.13.6 and using the default addressbook. She has had to resort to
> > basically entering the addresses manually which is rather slow .
> >
> > Is there any simple way with the current versions  we are using to setup
> > distribution lists?  Or could list members suggest an alternative mail
> > client that does a better job with distribution lists.
>
> dist lists are fixed in kmail in KDE 4.7.2+.  That means upgrade to 12.1,
> or upgrade KDE only on your 11.4 install using the packages in
> KDE:Distro:Factory [*]
Well  that is good to hear!  

> dist lists are generalized to 'Contact Groups' in kaddressbook now.  To
> create a contact group, open kaddressbook, click New Group in the toolbar,
> then either select existing people from the addressbook, or if you only
> want them to exist in the distlist, not as a full contact, enter names and
> email addresses in the contact group dialog.
>
> To use a dist list, type its name in the mail composer or use the Select..
> button to pick it from the address book.

Will, I appreciate your advice on this, and will have a look at installing on 
11.4 for 
now. This will make it easy for my wife who has a bit of difficulty adjusting 
to changes 
especially as she has been using Kmail since we moved over to suse from about 
v.8 or 9.

I note that you are a KDE Developer and for that I say thank you, and also to 
all the 
other contributors who produce such a great desktop.
  
thank you

John

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John
Canberra,  A.C.T.
Australia
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