Talk:Projects/Documentation/KDE/kdepim/kmail
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Scrapbook for ideas
Beginners tasks
First startup
How to setup accounts/identities
How to read and manage mail
How to write and send mail
How to use templates and snippets
How to mark and tag your mail
How to use the quick search and the full search to find mail
How to manage folders
- Creating folders, moving messages between folders, navigating between folders (including favorite folder view) and explaining the folder view in general. Maybe a quick introduction/link/whatever on how to use filters to move messages to the right folders.
TMG 17:26, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Advanced Tasks
Fine tuning KMail
- What one can do with signatures, and where the signature separator comes from, and how to insert that separator automatically --tictric 10:54, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
Import Mail from other MUA
How to work with signed/encrypted mail
How to use filters
- Filters can be used in many ways, for example to manage mailing lists (automatically moving the mail to the correct folder), to rewrite subjects (e.g. remove the [kde-pim] subject prefix, or a filter to remove ***SPAM*** that the provide added, ...)
Advanced topics: POP filter and Sieve filters. TMG 17:03, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Managing multiple identities
- If you have more than one mail address and many accounts, you'll likely also need different identities. Useful things: Set the dictionary for an identity, bind an identity to a special transport, set a per-folder or per-account (IMAP only) identity, enable the identity combobox in the composer, ...
TMG 17:03, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Adjusting the look of KMail
- You can change many things about the way KMail looks to match your taste. For example: Colors, fonts, layout of message pane and message structure viewer, type of headers displayed in the message pane, icon for folders, tooltip for folders, hiding or showing favorite folders, the appearance of the message list (aggregation, theme etc) and many more.
TMG 17:16, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- Not sure if this deserves an own section, but keyboard navigation in KMail did confuse a few people. What is important. The "J", "C" and "M" keys, the keys for navigating around in the message list, the keys to navigate in the folder list and the keys to scroll the message itself.
TMG 17:23, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Appendix
Glossary
- MUA
- MTA
- IMAP
- more here ...