diff --git a/plugins/kolab_addressbook/lib/rcube_kolab_contacts.php b/plugins/kolab_addressbook/lib/rcube_kolab_contacts.php
index 5b7fd8d5..5702a0c9 100644
--- a/plugins/kolab_addressbook/lib/rcube_kolab_contacts.php
+++ b/plugins/kolab_addressbook/lib/rcube_kolab_contacts.php
@@ -246,13 +246,12 @@ class rcube_kolab_contacts extends rcube_addressbook
      */
     public function list_records($cols=null, $subset=0)
     {
-        $this->result = $this->count();
+        $this->result = new rcube_result_set(0, ($this->list_page-1) * $this->page_size);;
 
         // list member of the selected group
         if ($this->gid) {
             $this->_fetch_groups();
             $seen = array();
-            $this->result->count = 0;
             foreach ((array)$this->distlists[$this->gid]['member'] as $member) {
                 // skip member that don't match the search filter
                 if (is_array($this->filter['ids']) && array_search($member['ID'], $this->filter['ids']) === false)
@@ -269,9 +268,15 @@ class rcube_kolab_contacts extends rcube_addressbook
             }
             $ids = array_keys($seen);
         }
+        else if (is_array($this->filter['ids'])) {
+            $ids = $this->filter['ids'];
+            if ($this->result->count = count($ids))
+                $this->_fetch_contacts(array(array('uid', '=', $ids)));
+        }
         else {
             $this->_fetch_contacts();
-            $ids = is_array($this->filter['ids']) ? $this->filter['ids'] : array_keys($this->contacts);
+            $ids = array_keys($this->contacts);
+            $this->result->count = count($ids);
         }
 
         // sort data arrays according to desired list sorting
diff --git a/plugins/libkolab/lib/kolab_storage_cache.php b/plugins/libkolab/lib/kolab_storage_cache.php
index afe4dc12..4c822f6e 100644
--- a/plugins/libkolab/lib/kolab_storage_cache.php
+++ b/plugins/libkolab/lib/kolab_storage_cache.php
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ class kolab_storage_cache
     /**
      * Get number of objects mathing the given query
      *
-     * @param string  $type Object type (e.g. contact, event, todo, journal, note, configuration)
+     * @param array  $query Pseudo-SQL query as list of filter parameter triplets
      * @return integer The number of objects of the given type
      */
     public function count($query = array())
@@ -363,10 +363,18 @@ class kolab_storage_cache
     {
         $sql_where = '';
         foreach ($query as $param) {
+            if ($param[1] == '=' && is_array($param[2])) {
+                $qvalue = '(' . join(',', array_map(array($this->db, 'quote'), $param[2])) . ')';
+                $param[1] = 'IN';
+            }
+            else {
+                $qvalue = $this->db->quote($param[2]);
+            }
+
             $sql_where .= sprintf(' AND %s %s %s',
                 $this->db->quote_identifier($param[0]),
                 $param[1],
-                $this->db->quote($param[2])
+                $qvalue
             );
         }