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KMail is the email component of Kontact, the integrated personal information manager from KDE.

Main Features

Supports the standard mail protocols IMAP, POP3 and SMTP.
Supports authentication via NTLM (Microsoft Windows) and GSSAPI (Kerberos)
Supports plain text and secure logins, using SSL and TLS.
Integration of international character sets
Spell-checking (as-you-type and on demand)
Native support for inline OpenPGP, PGP/MIME, and S/MIME.
Reading and writing of HTML mail.
Ability to display plain text only from an HTML mail.
Allows you to receive and accept invitations.
Integration with popular spam checkers, e.g. SpamAssassin, Bogofilter, etc.
An optional spam probability meter can be displayed
Powerful search and filter abilities
Can import mail from many other clients
Searching in IMAP folders fully supported
Highly integrated with other Kontact components
Encrypted password saving in KWallet

Other Features

Flagging and tagging of messages to aid sorting and recovery of information
Supports mailing list management features
Can replace text smilies with emoticons
Displays the sender's picture or avatar if present in the address book
Supports X-Face (b/w pictures in messages)
Compression of attachments

Groupware

KMail supports Groupware functionality. You can receive invitations from colleagues and accept them. As you accept them, they are entered into your calendar. To view your calendar, start Special:myLanguage/KOrganizer or Special:myLanguage/Kontact.

Screenshots

See this page for several views.

KMail's Toolbox

This page discusses the following issues -

KMail and PGP/MIME

KMail and PGP/MIME discusses:

Prerequisites
Installation of GnuPG
Setting up gpg-agent and
Checking that it works in KMail

The Development Team

A list of the many developers is available here.

FAQs, Hints and Tips

For ease of reading these have been moved to their own page.

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 * Integration of international character sets
 * Spell-checking (as-you-type and on demand)
-* Native support for inline OpenPGP, ''[[KMail/gpg|PGP/MIME]]'', and S/MIME.
+* Native support for inline OpenPGP, ''[[Special:myLanguage/KMail/gpg|PGP/MIME]]'', and S/MIME.
 * Reading and writing of HTML mail.
 * Ability to display plain text only from an HTML mail.
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 * Searching in IMAP folders fully supported
 * Highly integrated with other Kontact components
-* Encrypted password saving in [[KDE Wallet Manager|KWallet]]
+* Encrypted password saving in [[Special:myLanguage/KDE Wallet Manager|KWallet]]
 ===Other Features=== <!--T:4-->
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-KMail supports ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/groupware Groupware]'' functionality. You can receive invitations from colleagues and accept them. As you accept them, they are entered into your calendar. To view your calendar, start ''[[KOrganizer]]'' or ''[[Kontact]]''.
+KMail supports ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/groupware Groupware]'' functionality. You can receive invitations from colleagues and accept them. As you accept them, they are entered into your calendar. To view your calendar, start ''[[Special:myLanguage/KOrganizer]]'' or ''[[Special:myLanguage/Kontact]]''.
 == Screenshots== <!--T:8-->
 <!--T:9-->
-See ''[[KMail/Screenshots|this page]]'' for several views.
+See ''[[Special:myLanguage/KMail/Screenshots|this page]]'' for several views.
 ==KMail's Toolbox== <!--T:10-->
 <!--T:11-->
-''[[KMail/Tools|This page]]'' discusses the following issues -
+''[[Special:myLanguage/KMail/Tools|This page]]'' discusses the following issues -
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-::* ''[[KMail/Tools#Mail_Import_Tools|Mail Import Tools]]''
+::* ''[[Special:myLanguage/KMail/Tools#Mail_Import_Tools|Mail Import Tools]]''
-::* ''[[KMail/Tools#Mail_Export_Tools|Mail Export Tools]]''
+::* ''[[Special:myLanguage/KMail/Tools#Mail_Export_Tools|Mail Export Tools]]''
-::* ''[[KMail/Tools#Addressbook_Import_Tools|Addressbook Import Tools]]''
+::* ''[[Special:myLanguage/KMail/Tools#Addressbook_Import_Tools|Addressbook Import Tools]]''
-::* ''[[KMail/Tools#Development_and_Security|Development and Security]]''
+::* ''[[Special:myLanguage/KMail/Tools#Development_and_Security|Development and Security]]''
-::* ''[[KMail/Tools#Anti-Spam_Tools|Anti-Spam Tools]]''
+::* ''[[Special:myLanguage/KMail/Tools#Anti-Spam_Tools|Anti-Spam Tools]]''
-::* ''[[KMail/Tools#Other_Tools_and_Patches|Other Tools and Patches]]''
+::* ''[[Special:myLanguage/KMail/Tools#Other_Tools_and_Patches|Other Tools and Patches]]''
 ==KMail and PGP<nowiki>/</nowiki>MIME== <!--T:13-->
 <!--T:14-->
-''[[KMail/PGP_MIME|KMail and PGP/MIME]]'' discusses:
+''[[Special:myLanguage/KMail/PGP_MIME|KMail and PGP/MIME]]'' discusses:
 ::* Prerequisites
 ::* Installation of GnuPG
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-A list of the many developers is available ''[[KMail/Devs|here]]''.
+A list of the many developers is available ''[[Special:myLanguage/KMail/Devs|here]]''.
 == FAQs, Hints and Tips == <!--T:17-->
 <!--T:18-->
-For ease of reading these have been moved to ''[[KMail/FAQs_Hints_and_Tips|their own page]]''.
+For ease of reading these have been moved to ''[[Special:myLanguage/KMail/FAQs_Hints_and_Tips|their own page]]''.
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