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The Kontact Handbook

Cornelius Schumacher

Antonio Salazar

Daniel Molkentin

Revision 6.6.0 (KDE Gear 25.12) (2025-12-11)

Copyright © 2003-2005 Cornelius Schumacher

Kontact is the integrated solution to your personal information management (PIM) needs. It combines well-known KDE applications such as KMail, KOrganizer and KAddressBook into a single interface to provide easy access to mail, scheduling, address book and other PIM functionality.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Kontact Components
3. The Kontact Main Window
Side Pane
Main View
Menu, Tool and Status Bars
Drag and Drop Functionality
KMail -> KOrganizer To-do List
KMail -> KOrganizer Calendar
KMail -> KAddressBook
KAddressBook -> KOrganizer To-do List
KAddressBook -> KOrganizer Calendar
4. The Summary View
Repositioning Summary View Components
5. Configuring Kontact
Kontact Configuration Window
Configuring Kontact's Summary View
Kontact Summary Plugins: Calendar
Kontact Summary Plugins: Mail
Kontact Summary Plugins: To-do List
Kontact Summary Plugins: Special Dates
6. Kontact On the Command Line
Command Line Arguments
Module-related Arguments
Startup-related Arguments
7. Under The Hood
8. Credits and License
A. Administrator's Guide
Compatibility Issues
Outlook and Exchange
Behavioral Issues
Composing Messages
RFC Compromises