kmail kaddressbook problem

[dave s]

On Sunday 27 November 2005 01:01, Merv Curley wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 November 2005 14:09, dave s wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Does anyone else have this problem,
> >
> > Start kmail, compose new message, press select button to access
> > kaddressbook, the list is empty. I can always get recent addresses
> > but resource is empty.
>
> No answers in 4 days, surprising.
>
> Anyway my address book shows up flawlessly when creating a new
> message, and I have moved the file between several distros - Mepis,
> PCLinuxOS, Suse 10 and Kubuntu in the past few months. All have been
> stable.  The file started several years ago on some unknown distro
> and has grown.  I don't think you need to lose your data if you purge
> Kontact and reinstall.  That might be better than just installing
> KMail.  Unless you didn't install Kontact.
>
> Save all your config files as well as data.

Thanks for the reply :)

I have had kmail stability probs from day one, if I dpkg -P kmail and re 
apt-get it I thought I would loose all my carefully setup kmail config.

What files did you save to keep your address book and kmail data intact ?

Cheers
Dave