The Kmail Team welcomes you to Kmail, a user-friendly mailer for the K Desktop Environment. Our goal is to make a mailer that is beautiful and intuitive without sacrificing power.
If you have never set up an email client on a Unix system before, we suggest that you read through the Getting Started section first so that your setup goes smoothly.
Since people don't read documentation anyway, here is a collection of the most helpful tips:
You don't have to use your mouse to use Kmail. Everything should be possible with keys. Kmail supports all the standard keys like TAB (switch between panes). The trick is: left arrow/right arrow always jumps to the previous/next message, but when you hold down Ctrl, you can use left arrow/right arrow to navigate in the Folders pane and up arrow/down arrow to navigate in the Headers pane. Use space to select the folder you navigated to.
When you are writing a new mail and you are in the To: field, only type the first few characters of the receiver's address, then press Ctrl-T to get a list of choices. These are taken from your address book, so keep your address book up to date and this feature will be very useful.
In the Composer you can select text and drag it around with the mouse.
Kmail's homepage is at http://kmail.kde.org, an archive of the developer's mailing list is at lists.kde.org.
Please report bugs in Kmail using Help->Report bug....
We hope you will enjoy Kmail!