Creates a new main window.

Allows you to open files which contain email messages.

Saves the currently displayed message to a text file, including all the headers and attachments.

Starts up kmailcvt (which is part of kdepim). This application lets you import messages from several email clients into KMail.

Display a dialog that lets you print the currently displayed message.

Delete old messages from all folders, according to the rules in each folder's Properties dialog (the default is not to delete old messages at all).

This will remove all changes that you have done locally to your IMAP folders and redownload everything from the server. Use this if the local cache was corrupted.

Use this to empty all trash folders, i.e. the local trash folder and all trash folders that you might have on IMAP servers.

Checks for new messages in all your accounts, except those that have Exclude from "Check Mail" enabled.

Submenu that lets you check for new messages from a particular account.

Checks whether new mail arrived in the currently selected folder. This is only available for IMAP folders.

Sends the messages that are in your outbox.

Closes the current main window or exits KMail if there is only this one window.

Revokes your last move or delete action. Note that you cannot undo a deletion in the trash.

Copies selected text to the clipboard.

Moves the selected messages to the trash folder. If the selected messages are already in the trash folder, they will really be deleted.

Opens up a search window that lets you search for messages with certain characteristics, e.g. a certain subject. Start the search by entering some values and press Search. Click on one of the resulting messages and it will appear in the Message pane.

Lets you search for a string in the currently displayed message.

Selects all messages in the current folder.

Selects the text of the currently displayed message.

Changes the format of the message header in the Message pane.

Changes the way attachments appear in the Message pane (independent of the MIME Tree). With As Icons all attachments appear as icons at the bottom of the message. Smart will show attachments as icons, unless the message suggests that they should be displayed inline. You can suggest that certain attachments should be shown inline in your own messages when you select Suggest automatic display in the attachment's properties dialog. Inline shows the contents of the attachments at the bottom of the message. Attachments that cannot be displayed, e.g. compressed files, will still be shown as an icon. Hide will not show attachments.

This will display the thread of the current message, i.e. all messages that are replies to the current message.

This will hide the thread of the current message, i.e. it will hide all messages that are replies to the current message.

Expands all threads in the current folder.

Collapses all threads in the current folder.

Shows the message and its complete headers in plain text format in a new window. This can be useful to find out the origin of a mail. You should know that it is easy to fake the From: header of a mail, but one can still find out which mail servers have been used to send the message by looking at the Received: lines in the header.

Display the structure viewer, which is a part of the main window that lets you access all parts of a message.

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

Lets you choose the character encoding to be used in the Message Pane. The default, Auto, should work in almost all cases.

Selects the next message in the message list. The keyboard shortcut Right Arrow also performs this action.

Selects the next unread message in the message list. If there is no unread message below the currently selected message then the behavior depends on the value of the When trying to find unread messages option.

Selects the previous message in the message list.

Selects the previous unread message in the message list. If there is no unread message above the currently selected message then the behavior depends on the value of the When trying to find unread messages option.

Jumps to the next folder with unread messages.

Jumps to the previous folder with unread messages.

Scrolls down if you are not yet at the bottom of a message, otherwise jumps to the next unread message.

Opens the Folder Properties dialog that lets you create a new folder.

Sets the status of all new and unread messages in the current folder to read.

Checks whether new mail arrived in the currently selected folder. This is only available for IMAP folders.

Moves all of the messages in the selected folder into the trash folder. This is only available if the currently selected folder is not a trash folder.

Removes the selected folder and all its contents, including subfolders.

Searches the folder for duplicate messages and deletes the duplicates.

If enabled then HTML messages in this folder will be shown using HTML rendering. For security reasons, we recommend to only activate this for folders which only contain trusted messages.

Opens the composer window so you can write a new message.

Opens the composer window so you can write a new mail. If the current folder holds a mailing list and has a posting address defined, this address will be the default To: address.

Opens up the composer window, inserts the quoted text of the currently selected message and presets the To: field either with the mailing-list address (if you reply to a mailing-list message) or with the preferred reply address of the sender. If you want to control which address the To: field is preset with then you should either use Message → Reply to Author... or Message → Reply to Mailing-List.... Your identity will automatically be set to the one which this message was sent to.

Opens up the composer window, inserts the quoted text of the currently selected message and presets the To: field either with the mailing-list address (if you reply to a mailing-list message) or with the preferred reply address of the sender. The Copy to (CC): field is preset with the addresses of all other recipients of the currently selected message excluding your own addresses. Your identity will automatically be set to the one which this message was sent to.

Opens up the composer window, inserts the quoted text of the currently selected message and presets the To: field with the preferred reply address of the sender. Your identity will automatically be set to the one which this message was sent to.

Opens up the composer window, inserts the quoted text of the currently selected message and presets the To: field with the mailing-list address. If you did not specify a mailing-list address for the currently selected folder and KMail cannot determine the posting address from the currently selected message then the To: field will be empty. Your identity will automatically be set to the one which this message was sent to.

Works just like Reply... except that the text of the currently selected message is not quoted.

Forwards the message to a new recipient. Using Inline, the message's text and some important header fields will be copied to the body of the new message with a text marking the forwarded part. Attachments will be forwarded as attachments of the new message. Using As Attachment the message and its attachments will become an attachment of the new message. The original message headers will be included in the forwarded message, too. Redirect works like forward, except that the message stays the same (even the From: field). The user who redirected the message is added in special header fields (Redirect-From, Redirect-Date, Redirect-To, etc.).

Opens a composer window with the currently selected message so it can be sent again. This is only available for messages which you have sent or, more precisely, for messages which have the sent status.

Edits the selected message if it is editable. Only messages in the outbox and drafts folder can be edited.

Copies the selected messages to a certain folder.

Moves the selected messages to a certain folder.

Allows you to change the status of the selected message to one of the following states:

Allows you to change the status of all messages in a thread. The possible states are the same as for Message → Mark Message.

Opens up the Filter dialog with a new filter added. This new filter is based on fields of the current mail, depending on which sub menu item you select.

Allows you to apply an individual filter or all filters to the selected messages. Only filters for which you enabled the Add this filter to the Apply Filter menu option will be available.

Opens up a search window that lets you search for messages with certain characteristics, e.g. a certain subject. Start the search by entering some values and press Search. Click on one of the resulting messages and it will appear in the Message pane.

Starts up KAddressBook, the KDE address book. If this menu item is disabled and greyed out either KAddressBook is not installed or the program was not found.

Starts Kleopatra, the KDE certificate manager.

Starts KWatchGnuPG, a tool to present the debug output of GnuPG application. If signing, encryption, or verification mysteriously stop working, you might find out why by looking at the log.

Launch the Configure "Out of Office" Replies dialog, which allow you to set-up vacation notifications.

Opens up the viewer window for the filter log; there you find some options to control the logging of the filtering process. In the log you will find valuable information about what filter rules were used, what was the result of the evaluation of those rules, and which filter actions were applied to a message.

It starts a wizard which can help you to set up spam filtering.

It starts a wizard which can help you to set up scanning messages for viruses.

If enabled, the Toolbar is visible (the Toolbar is the one with the icon to compose a new message etc.).

If enabled, the Quick Search bar which allows you to quickly search for messages matching a search text is visible.

Opens the Message Filters window.

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

Opens a window that lets you configure what happens when new mail arrives, like playing a sound.

Opens a window that lets you choose which icons are visible in the toolbar.

Opens the Configure window.

Invokes the KDE Help system starting at the KMail help pages. (this document).

Changes the mouse cursor to a combination arrow and question mark. Clicking on items within KMail will open a help window (if one exists for the particular item) explaining the item's function.

Opens the Bug report dialog where you can report a bug or request a “wishlist” feature.

Opens a dialog where you can edit the Primary language and Fallback language for this application.

This will display version and author information.

This displays the KDE version and other basic information.

This displays the welcome screen, which lists the most important differences between your version of KMail and the previous one.

This displays a dialog with useful hints for using KMail.