Ok, after some digging I've found something. If kmail is set to use kab,=20
addressses saved from kmail (right click on address and select 'add to ad=
dress=20
book') will have the problem I described. Yet, if kmail is configured to =
use=20
abbrowser, saved addresses will not have the problem. The difference is t=
hat=20
when abbroswer is used the 'emails' field gets just the e-mail address wh=
ereas=20
when kab is used the 'emails' field gets 'name name@domain'.  Kmail latte=
r=20
chokes on that format. For example:

Entry created with kab:

    # subsections:
    [addresses]
    [END addresses]
    # key-value-pairs:
    URLs=3D""
    birthday=3D"0, 0, 0"
    comment=3D""
    custom=3D""
    emails=3D"John Smith <xxxxxx@xxxx.xxx>\e"
    firstname=3D"Jon"
    fn=3D""
    keywords=3D""
    lastname=3D"Cure"
    middlename=3D""
    nameprefix=3D""
    rank=3D""
    talk=3D""
    telephone=3D""
    title=3D""
    user1=3D""
    user2=3D""
    user3=3D""
    user4=3D""

Entry created with abbrowser:

    # subsections:
    [addresses]
    [END addresses]
    # key-value-pairs:
    URLs=3D""
    birthday=3D"0, 0, 0"
    comment=3D""
    custom=3D"KMail:1.0\n X-FirstName\n Michael\n[EOR]\n X-LastName\n=20
Haeckel\n[EOR]\n EMAIL\n Michael@Haeckel.Net\n[EOR]\n N\n Michael=20
Haeckel\n[EOR]\n X-FileAs\n Michael Haeckel\n[EOR]\n[EOS]\n\e"
    emails=3D"Michael@Haeckel.Net\e"
    firstname=3D"Michael"
    fn=3D"Michael Haeckel"
    keywords=3D""
    lastname=3D"Haeckel"
    middlename=3D""
    nameprefix=3D""
    rank=3D""
    talk=3D""
    telephone=3D""
    title=3D""
    user1=3D""
    user2=3D""
    user3=3D""
    user4=3D""

Kmail can deal with the format created by abbrowswer, but not the format =
created=20
by kab. It looks to me like the address is not inserted into the DB corre=
ctly=20
when kab is used because KabBridge::addresses() assumes that the entry in=
 the=20
emails field is of the form 'name@domain' rather than 'name name@domain'.=
=20
Perhaps the address needs to be simiplified/truncated in AddToKabDialog()=
.=20

In the meantime, it looks like I'll be switching to abbrowswer.=20

Thanks,=20
Mike

Michael Haeckel wrote:
> On Tuesday, 31. October 2000 21:27, Mike Davison wrote:
> > It must be a problem specific to Kab as I am using kab rather than
> > abbrowser.
>=20
> They are using the same database. I just switched even to KAB, but also=
 can't=20
> see the problem.
>=20
> Regards,
> Michael H=E4ckel
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