[kmail2] [Bug 358071] Kmail adds wrong contacts to e-mail when using contact groups

[Robert Spillner]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358071

--- Comment #4 from Robert Spillner  ---
I dug into this bug a little by myself and found out that in order to resolve
contact group names into mail addresses kmail does a search via akonadi. When
using *spaces* in the contact group names with similar words in both contact
group names this search will have multiple results. So if you have two list,
say

foo bar
foo crowbar,

and you use "foo crowbar" as recipient the akonadi search query will return
"foo bar" and "foo crowbar" since "foo" is in both of them. KMail apparently
chooses the first result of the result list, which is "foo bar".

As a workaround, if you rename your contact lists to
foorbar
foocrowbar

this will not happen. Unfortunately, KMail does not allow "_" in the names. I
guess that there should be a better input validation and masking of the search
word in kmail when quering for a contact group.

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[kmail2] [Bug 358071] Kmail adds wrong contacts to e-mail when using contact groups

[Christoph Feck]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358071

--- Comment #3 from Christoph Feck  ---
We didn't find a developer or contributor yet who is able to investigate this
issue.

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[kmail2] [Bug 358071] Kmail adds wrong contacts to e-mail when using contact groups

[Robert Spillner]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358071

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--- Comment #2 from Robert Spillner  ---
This sucks so badly and is a really major show stopper for really anything that
has to do with contact groups. How come that in 4 years and God knows how many
releases of kmail this has not been fixed!?

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[kmail2] [Bug 358071] Kmail adds wrong contacts to e-mail when using contact groups

[andrew brewster]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358071

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--- Comment #1 from andrew brewster  ---
Confirmed, this is the most annoying of bugs that makes using KMail to manage
distribution groups near impossible.

You can't send consecutive emails to different groups, as KMail always adds the
emails from the first selected group to the second, third and subsequent
emails.

Is is something to do with the subject line, or message contents, or both,
being the same in each email, and KMail thinks you are trying to resend
something that has already been sent, despite trying to send it to a different
contact group selected from KAddressBook?

KMail version 5.3.4

rpm -qa | grep kmail
kmail-debuginfo-16.12.3-2.1.mga6
kmail-account-wizard-debuginfo-16.12.3-1.mga6
kmailtransport-16.12.3-1.mga6
kmailtransport-debuginfo-16.12.3-1.mga6
kmail-16.12.3-2.1.mga6
kmail-account-wizard-16.12.3-1.mga6
kmail-handbook-16.12.3-2.1.mga6
lib64kmailprivate5-16.12.3-2.1.mga6
kmailtransport-handbook-16.12.3-1.mga6

rpm -qa | grep kaddress
lib64kaddressbookmergelibprivate5-16.12.3-1.mga6
kaddressbook-16.12.3-1.mga6
lib64kaddressbookimportexportlibprivate5-16.12.3-1.mga6

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