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The KMail Handbook

Daniel Naber

David Rugge

Revision 2.1.96 (KDE 4.7) (2011-07-15)

Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 David Rugge

Copyright © 2003 Daniel Naber

Copyright © 2004 Daniel Naber, Ingo Klöcker

KMail is KDE's powerful and user friendly email client.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Getting Started
Setting your Identity
Setting up your Account
Sending Messages
Receiving Messages
Testing your Setup
3. Using KMail
The Main Window
Keyboard Shortcuts
The Composer Window
Composing a Message
Signing and Encrypting Messages
Creating HTML Messages
Adding Attachments
Checking the Spelling of your Message
Setting Up the Text Snippets Tool
Message Folders
Folder Properties
Old Message Expiry
Mailing List
Access Control tab (IMAP only)
Message Filters
Fast Filter Creation
The Filter Dialog
Search Patterns
Filter Action
Filter Examples
Filter Optimization
Filter Log
Using Multiple Accounts
Signing and Encrypting Messages with GnuPG
Preconditions
GnuPG-Related Settings in KMail
Sign your Messages
Encrypt your Messages
Send your Public Key
You received an encrypted Message
Receiving a Public Key
The Anti-Spam Wizard
Basics
Advanced
Some More Details for Experts
The Anti-Virus Wizard
Basics
Advanced
Details
4. Configure KMail
General Information
Identities Page
The New Identity Dialog
General
Cryptography
Advanced
Templates
Signature
Pictures
Accounts Page
Sending
Receiving
Appearance Page
Fonts
Colors
Layout
Message List
Message Window
System Tray
Composer Page
General
Standard Templates
Custom Templates
Subject
Charset
Headers
Attachments
Security Page
Reading
Composing
Miscellaneous
S/MIME Validation
Misc Page
Folders
Invitations
Options without a user interface representation
5. Menu Entries
The Main Window
File Menu
Edit Menu
View Menu
Go Menu
Folder Menu
Message Menu
Tools Menu
Settings Menu
Help Menu
The Composer Window
Message Menu
Edit Menu
View Menu
Options Menu
Attach Menu
Tools Menu
Settings Menu
Help Menu
6. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
7. Using other Mailbox Files with KMail
8. KMail Troubleshooting
KMail doesn't send mail
Clean start after a failed migration
Local Folders is added over and over
You get the error Unable to fetch item from backend when entering IMAP folder
Your mails are not being sent, without error messages
9. Credits and License
Development Team
Credits
Documentation
A. Installation
How to obtain KMail
Compilation and Installation

List of Tables

3.1. ACL Rights Summary

List of Examples

4.1. Email address
4.2. Email aliases