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is the integrated Personal Information Manager of KDE. It supports email, address books, calendars, tasks, news feeds and much more.

The Kontact suite is the Personal Information Management (PIM) solution of KDE. It lets you handle email, agenda, contacts and other 'personal' data together in one place.

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Cannot add Calendars or Events in Korganizer

My Korganizer is not usable. I am unable to do add calendars or events. When I launched it the first time, it showed two calendars - Birthdays and Personal Calendar. I tried setting up another local calendar. But it would not let me. When I was…
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How do I completely purge ALL kontact and akonadi configuration?

I have a very specific problem with Kmail. I cannot login to one of my imap mail accounts. 3x other imap mail accounts are working perfectly but not that one. I first thought it might be the mail account, but when I tried it on a fresh Kubuntu vm…
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Kontact in Kubuntu 16.10 will not start because the Akonadi server will not start

I am using Kubuntu 16.10 and am unable to get Kontact to start because Akonadi will not start. Below is the output from akonadictl start. It appears there is something seriously wrong with Akonadi. Does anyone have any ideas? Am I just sol? Can a…
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Can I sync my KOrganizer and iCloud calendars?

Is there a way for a busy person to be able to put an item on my iCloud Calendar and have the event added to a main KOrganizer calendar automatically, and vice versa?
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How to add CalDAV and CardDAV resources to Kontact?

I just switched to KDE on my Ubuntu laptop, and am trying to use Kontact for a better desktop integration (I was previously using Evloution). My problem is that I can't manage to add CardDAV nor CalDAV servers to my contacts and calendars... My DAV…
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Remove additionally installed packages (from Kontact)

I wanted to try Kontact, but that automatically installed another bunch of packages. After deciding that I didn't really like Kontact, I removed it with sudo apt-get remove kontact but that doesn't remove all the other programs which were installed…
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Why do I see duplicate contacts in my Kontacts?

I've configured Kontacts, synced and downloaded my google contacts but I can see 2 or more contacts with the same name and same phone number. Where have I gone wrong?
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Is it possible to have the Kontact suite on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?

I'd like to have the whole Kontact suite all together instead of i.e. Kmail and Korganizer split up. As those two programs are downloadable from Ubuntu Software, but not the suite. I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and would like to avoid having to…
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16.04 Akonadi for Kontact does not start

I upgraded from 12.04 to 16.04 in two steps today and the PIM tools, like Kontact, no longer work due to Akonadi/MySQL problems. akonadictl start gives this output/error: edA-qa@silent-red:~/.local/share/akonadi$ search paths: ("/usr/local/sbin",…
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How can I set up Kontact to sync with Hotmail calendar?

I have just ditched Windows and installed Ubuntu 15.04 on my machine as I can't stand the horrible performance of Windows (it takes about 20 minutes from boot to become responsive, and another 10 minutes after suspend). However, I don't know how to…
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design printing theme for kaddressbook (grantlee)

I would like to create a printing theme for kaddressbook that allows me to print my contacts on label stickers 70x32mm. The problem is, I don't know enough html/css/grantlee to make it work. Any guru around who can just do this in a couple of…
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KMail Without Akonadi or Kontact in Kubuntu 18.04?

I've searched the web as well as this site (including the other Stack Overflow/Exchange/etc. sibling sites) and have not found any concrete info. I've also searched the official KDE site and have still not found an answer. I'm running Kubuntu 18.04…
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When opening encrypted mails with Kontact/Kmail the subject is not decrypted

When I receive emails with Kontact/Kmail that are encrypted with OpenPGP I am not able to get its subject. When I open then and provide the proper password the body gets decrypted fine, but the subject still shows as …. How can I find out what the…
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How can I open kontact without having to enter a kdewallet password each time?

I use Kubuntu 17.04 with akonadictl 5.4.3 Each time I boot Kubuntu a dialog box says, "akonadi_imap_resource.2 (or kontact) has requested to open the wallet 'kdewallet' I enter my password and the dialog box goes away. How can I set up akonadictl…
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kontact cannot connect to akonadi server

I am facing troubles with getting kontact to run: Installed it via: sudo flatpak install flathub org.kde.kontact Output of: /usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=kontact org.kde.kontact Trying to create…
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