'Re: [kdepim-users] send email using a distribution list / contact group'

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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] send email using a distribution list / contact group
From:       "O. Sinclair" <o.sinclair () gmail ! com>
Date:       2014-09-09 10:52:39
Message-ID: 540EDBF7.2090302 () gmail ! com
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On 09/09/2014 12:27, Werner Joss wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 9. September 2014, 11:58:30 schrieb Robert Nuske:
>> Dear  kontact users,
>> 
>> are there any tricks or workarounds to get Kmail to send an email
>> to a group / distribution list?
>> 
>> I am desperately trying to make use of a group with about 70
>> contacts created in KAddressBook. I naively expected that Kmail
>> would send the email to all members of the group when I pick the
>> group name  via the "Select..."-button attached to the
>> "To:"-Field. Kmail tells me that it is not a valid email address
>> without a '.'
>> 
>> I am trying to use a group in a local address book (personal
>> contacts) in kontact Version 4.13.3 on kubuntu 14.04.
> 
> oh, well, this ist the probably most reocurring bug in kmail: 
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334583 - has been 'fixed' at
> least 6 or more times in the past, and then always reocurred. not
> fixed now, as stated in the mentioned report. but I'm just tired on
> commenting on this over and over again. personally, I have given up
> trying to use this, I just keep addresses for a list in a textfile,
> from which I copy and paste into composer. sad, but working.
> 

This works/worked in 4.13.x and 4.14 so if there is a problem it is
not kde or distro-related. As I am on Kubuntu 14.04 w KDE 4.14 myself
and use KMail I can guarantee that for me it works