Opens up a new composer window.

Creates a new main window.

Creates a new addressbook contact.

Sends the message immediately. If you use SMTP to send your messages and the SMTP server is not reachable, the message will be put into the outbox and you will get an error message. You can then later send the messages in the outbox using File → Send Queued Messages.

Queues the message in the outbox for sending it later using File → Send Queued Messages.

Save the message in the drafts folder so you can later edit and send it.

Inserts a text file into the message text, starting at the cursor position.

Prints the current text.

Closes this composer window.

Pastes the text from the clipboard marked as quotation.

Undo your steps in editing the current message.

Redo your steps in editing the current message.

Cutting text works as with most editors: the selected text is removed and put into the clipboard. Note that you can also select text and drag it to a new position.

Copying text works as with most editors: the selected text is copied to the clipboard. Note that you can also select text while holding the Ctrl key, and drag it to a new position to copy it.

Pasting works the same as with most editors: the text from the clipboard is pasted at the current cursor position.

Selects all of the text in your message.

Opens a dialog to search for strings in the current message.

Goes to the next occurrence of the previously searched string.

Opens a dialog that lets you replace strings in your message with other strings.

This replaces multiple line breaks or spaces with single line breaks or spaces. It works on the current selection or on the complete message if there is no selection.

Prepends the selected text with quotation marks.

Removes the left-most quotation marks from the selected text.

Uppercase selected text.

Lowercase selected text.

It allows to insert special character in composer.

Uses a fixed width (monospaced) font to display the currently edited message. The font to be used can be configured in the Appearance section of KMail's configuration dialog.

Sets the priority of the message to Urgent. The receiver's email client has to support this or it will have no effect. KMail itself does not support priorities for incoming messages.

If you choose this option, you request a confirmation email once your message is downloaded and read by its recipient. This has to be supported and enabled by the receiver's email client in order to work.

See Message Disposition Notifications for background information and ways to customize the read receipts that KMail itself sends.

Digitally sign the message using OpenPGP. You can learn more about this in the chapter on OpenPGP.

Encrypt the message using OpenPGP. You can learn more about this in the chapter on OpenPGP.

Choose the cryptographic message format to use to digitally sign and/or encrypt the message in. See the previous description of each option for more information.

Enables HTML editing.

Set the charset encoding of this message. The chosen encoding will appear in the header of the outgoing mail. You can use Auto for almost all cases, KMail will tell you if you need to select a different encoding manually.

Toggles the automatic wordwrap. It may be useful to turn it off if you want to paste long lines that should not wrap.

Toggles automatic spellchecking.

Appends your signature (“footer”) to the end of the message.

Attaches the corresponding GnuPG key to your message.

Attaches your GnuPG public key to your message.

Attaches one or more files to the current message.

Removes the attachment that is selected in the attachment part of the composer.

Saves the attachment that is selected in the attachment window to a file.

Displays the properties of the attachment that is selected in the attachment window.

Uses Sonnet to check the spelling in the body of your message. Note that you have to configure Sonnet with Settings → Spellchecker... if you use it for the first time.

Opens up KAddressBook.

Enables and disables the Main Toolbar, i.e. the one with the icon to send the message etc. and the HTML Toolbar, i.e. the one which with the tools to change certain properties of the composed text.

Allows you to configure Sonnet, KDE's spellchecker.

Opens a window that lets you configure the keyboard shortcuts for many menu commands.

Opens a window that allows you to decide which icons appear in the toolbar.

Opens KMail's configuration dialog.