address autocompletion gone missing in 4.10.2 - workaround found!

[O. Sinclair]

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On 07/04/2013 11:46, Valter Mura wrote:
> In data domenica 7 aprile 2013 11:26:48, O. Sinclair ha scritto:
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>> On 07/04/2013 10:30, Valter Mura wrote:
>>> In data domenica 7 aprile 2013 07:43:08, Lindsay Mathieson ha
>>> scritto:
>>>> On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 05:43:11 PM Valter Mura wrote:
>>>>> In data sabato 6 aprile 2013 15:43:09, O. Sinclair ha
>>>>> scritto:
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>>>>>> Upgraded to 4.10.2 and found that autocompletion of mail
>>>>>> receiver address went missing again in KMail...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Anyone else see this? Any idea how to get it back?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Same for me... always unresolved with plugin for GMail
>>>>> addressbook...
>>>> 
>>>> Is the nepomuk feeder running?
>>>> 
>>>> To check the status: sudo apt-get install akonadiconsole
>>>> 
>>>> then start akonadiconsole (its a gui app) and check the
>>>> "Akonadi Nepomuk Feeder". I suspect it will show either
>>>> "Waiting for Nepomuk to start" or "Nepomuk not operational:
>>>> Nepomuk is not running".
>>>> 
>>>> Both statuses are a furphy, nepomuk is running but sometimes
>>>> the feeder has a problem detecting this on startup. Restart
>>>> the feeder to get it working (right click, Restart Agent).
>>>> 
>>>> The feeder indexes the contacts collection and the index is
>>>> used for auto completion
>>> 
>>> Hi Lindsay
>>> 
>>> my Nepomuk is already running, but in System Settings > Desktop
>>> Search > Basic Settings (first tab) the "mail indexing" is
>>> "disabled" (I have disabled it, I do not need this kind of
>>> indexing for my home purposes). Could this setting affect my
>>> autocompletion process?
>>> 
>>> Also, I checked System Monitor and "akonadi_nepomuk_feeder" is
>>> currently running.
>> 
>> OK I found a workaround that I consider "not satisfactory" but
>> it makes things work again.
>> 
>> There is way to make KMail look in all Nepmuk data instead of
>> where it is so to speak supposed to (explanation way to techie
>> for me, maybe Lindsay can explain it).
>> 
>> In folder HOME/.kde/share/config there is a file 
>> "kpimcompletionorder". Add these 2 lines: [General] 
>> UseNepomuk=true
>> 
>> restart KMail and presto, completion works (you get more
>> suggestions than before) and so does Groups
>> 
>> Whatever you do - do not set the value to "false", even Dolphin 
>> stopped working for unknown reasons
>> 
>> As I said: this is a workaround, it is NOT how it is supposed to
>> work and I will be most happy if someone can find a "proper"
>> solution.
> 
> Tried. It doesn't work for me.
> 
> Add the two lines at the end of the file, closed Kmail and Nepomuk,
> restarted them but only "recent addresses" works
> 
I am not sure why, perhaps you do need to enable email indexing in
this case? I have it enabled
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