KDE Kmail - How to stop "Contacts found in your data" harvesting?

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KDE Kmail will not stop “Contacts found in your data” harvesting and attempting to autofill email addresses.

Does anyone know how to permanently stop this? I have unchecked the appropriate options and can erase the list of harvested addresses but Kmail just keeps doing it.

I have read other old threads but the solutions do not work.

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Looong time kmail user here. Could you provide screenshots about

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@8876523450:

The setting you’re looking for is here:

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In “Configure KMail” → “Plugins” → section “Check before send Plugins” → “Automatic add Contacts” –

  • Be aware that, the button at the right hand end of the Plugin entry has to be pressed to allow you to walk through your e-Mail accounts and take the needed actions before deactivating the Plugin completely.

  • And, please do not forget to press the “Apply” button before exiting with “OK”.

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I think you’re right. I cannot remember ever changing anything there. Some changes do require a restart of kmail though.

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FWIW, Don, you seem to be missing translation files

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@knurpht:

It’s Leap 16.0:

Operating System: openSUSE Leap 16.0
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.16.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.12.0-160000.8-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 8600G w/ Radeon 760M Graphics
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (30.5 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics
Manufacturer: ASUS

I suspect that, when the KDE Plasma is upgraded to a newer version – new Post here in this Forum probably today – the issue will disappear – hopefully …

  • The Kontact PIM suite is complaining that the version being used is more than 6 months old – at every start it suggests that, I should upgrade to a newer version …
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No one has a solution?

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@8876523450:

Now it’s clear – your left-most screen shot indicates exactly the settings which should stop this KMail feature.

  • You may have to also press the “Configure Completion…” button to get rid of all the places KMail searches for possible addresses.

If that doesn’t work, you’ll have to raise a KDE Bug Report – here: <https://bugs.kde.org/>.

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The solution was to swtich off the appropriate settings then delete

.local/share/akonadi/search_db/emailContacts/

Kmail is too dumb to erase it’s harvest of addresses even after switching the option that you don’t want it to do this.

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@8876523450:

Oh dear – I now see what you mean:

 > du -hs .local/share/akonadi/search_db/
413M    .local/share/akonadi/search_db/
 >

That’s a reasonable amount of SQLite glass in my .local/share/ directory tree …
There’s this KDE Bug Report: <Use addresses indexed from emails for autocompletion refuses to stop harvesting addresses regardless of check box setting>
Laurent writes there that, he’s going to investigate this issue.

Did he provide you with the solution you’ve mentioned above?