KMail in KDE PIM 4.4 is not Akonadi enabled and I think it will read addresses through the old KDE Resources mechanism while KAddressBook will read them through Akonadi.
Closing this report now as the cause was the out of sync NFS server. ** Changed in: kdepim (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdepim in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/676173 Title: kaddressbook fails to show addressbooks contents -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs