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# The Kmail Handbook

July 10, 1999

### David Rugge

This documentation was last updated for Kmail version 1.0.24. Please make any comments and additions to the authors.

KMail

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Getting Started
  2.1. Setting your Identity
  2.2. Setting up your Account
    2.2.1. Sending Mail
    2.2.2. Receiving Mail
  2.3. Testing Your Setup
3. Using Kmail
  3.1. The Mail Reader Window
  3.2. The Composer Window
    3.2.1. Composing a Message
    3.2.2. Attachments
    3.2.3. Checking the Spelling of you Message
  3.3. Message Folders
  3.4. The Addressbook
  3.5. Filters
    3.5.1. Filter Examples
  3.6. Multiple Accounts
  3.7. Pretty good privacy
4. Customizing Kmail
  4.1. Identity Tab
  4.2. Network Tab
  4.3. Appearance Tab
  4.4. Composer Tab
  4.5. Misc Tab
  4.6. PGP Tab
5. Using other Mailbox files With Kmail
6. Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts
  6.1. The Main Mail Reader window
    6.1.1. File menu
    6.1.2. Edit menu
    6.1.3. Folder menu
    6.1.4. Message menu
    6.1.5. View menu
    6.1.6. Help menu
  6.2. The Composer window
    6.2.1. File menu
    6.2.2. Edit menu
    6.2.3. Options menu
    6.2.4. View menu
    6.2.5. Attach menu
    6.2.6. Help menu
7. Questions and answers
  7.1. How do I use my (Eudora, XFmail, other random mail client) mailboxes in Kmail?
  7.2. How do I leave mail on the server? (from the KDE FAQ)
  7.3. How do I automatically insert a text footer within the mail? (from the KDE FAQ)
  7.4. Why does Kmail keep asking me for the location of my signature file?
  7.5. Why doesn't word wrap work in the Composer window?
  7.6. How can I find out how many unread messages I have in a mail folder?
  7.7. How do I set up sendmail to work with Kmail if I have a dial-up connection?
    7.7.1. Step 1: Masquerade host
    7.7.2. Step 2: Create a user database
    7.7.3. Step 3: Add user database to sendmail.cf
    7.7.4. Step 4: Restart sendmail
    7.7.5. Step 5: Configure a "smart" relay
8. Epilogue
  8.1. Developers
    8.1.1. Contributors
    8.1.2. Based on the work of
  8.2. Documentation
  8.3. Copyright

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