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    |[[Image:Kontact_presentation_small.jpg|thumb|265px]]|| '''Kontact is the integrated personal information manager of KDE.'''
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    '''Kontact''' is the integrated Personal Information Manager of KDE, but can be used with other systems as well.
    It supports email, address books, calendars, tasks, news feeds and much more.</translate>'''
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    The Kontact suite is the powerful PIM solution of KDE that handles your email, agenda, contacts and other 'personal' data together in one place. Kontact delivers innovations to help you manage your communications more easily, organize your work faster and work together more closely, resulting in more productivity and efficiency in digital collaboration.


    Kontact suite unites mature and proven KDE PIM applications under one roof. Thanks to the powerful [[Glossary#KPart|KPart]] technology, existing applications are seamlessly integrated into one.
    == Components == <!--T:5-->


    The components of KDE Kontact are tailored to work well with each other. This results in features like intuitive drag-and-drop between appointment handling, task lists and contacts. KDE Kontact supports various groupware servers. When using these servers your workgroup has access to features like shared email folders, group task lists, calendar sharing, central addressbooks and meeting scheduling.
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    KDE Kontact supports various groupware servers. When using these servers your workgroup has access to features like shared email folders, group task lists, calendar sharing, central address books and meeting scheduling.


    In short: KDE Kontact delivers innovations to help you manage your communications more easily, organize your work faster and work together more closely, resulting in more productivity and efficiency in digital collaboration.
    <!--T:3-->
    Kontact consists of the Kontact PIM back end and the graphical applications connecting to the back end. Special 'agents' (say a facebook agent) are employed to get new data in and merge it in the existing data set (for example contacts, news). Due to the clean infrastructure new agents are easy to develop.


    == Components ==
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    These programs can be integrated into Kontact:
    These programs together form Kontact:
    * [[Akregator]] - Read your favorite feeds
    * [[Special:myLanguage/Akregator|Akregator]] - Read your favorite feeds
    * [[KAddressBook]] - Manage your contacts
    * [[Special:myLanguage/KAddressBook/index|KAddressBook]] - Manage your contacts
    * [[KJots]] - Your ideas organised in a Notebook
    * [[Special:myLanguage/KMail|KMail]] - Mail client
    * [[KMail]] - Mail client
    * [[Special:myLanguage/KNotes|KNotes]] - Sticky notes for your Desktop
    * [[KNode]] - Your usenet mail reader
    * [[Special:myLanguage/KOrganizer|KOrganizer]] - Calendar and scheduling, Journal
    * [[KNotes]] - Sticky notes for your Desktop
    * [[Special:myLanguage/Summary|Summary]] - Summary screen in Kontact
    * [[KOrganizer]] - Calendar and scheduling, Journal
    * [[Special:myLanguage/KJots|KJots]] - Your ideas organized in a Notebook
    * [[Ktimetracker]] - Track how much time you spend on various tasks
    * [[Summary]] - Summary screen in Kontact


    ==Where to get help== <!--T:9-->


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    Documentation for Kontact is [https://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdepim/kontact/index.html available here].<br />
    The KDE community forum is [https://forum.kde.org/ here.]


    == See also ==
    <!--T:10-->
    * [[Tutorials/Kontact]]
    :: * How to send SMS using Kontact
     
    ==Where to get help==
     
    There is a mailing list at
    There is a mailing list at


    ::* '''kdepim-users''' - for users of the KDE PIM applications (Kontact, KAddressBook, KMail, KOrganizer, KNode, ...) [[https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users subscribe to kdepim-users]] [[http://lists.kde.org/?l=kdepim-users&r=1&w=2 archive of kdepim-users]].   A team of developers and user aim to give answers as quickly as possible.
    <!--T:11-->
     
    * '''kdepim-users''' - for users of the KDE PIM applications (Kontact, KAddressBook, KMail, KOrganizer, ...) [https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users subscribe to kdepim-users] [http://lists.kde.org/?l=kdepim-users&r=1&w=2 archive of kdepim-users]. A team of developers and users aim to give answers as quickly as possible
    and for urgent help, an IRC channel on Freenode
     
    ::For users and developers of Kontact - #kontact
     
    ==FAQ, Hints and Tips==
    ===Migrating your setup to a new distro===
    In Kmail, right click on
    your Inbox and choose Properties. Go the Maintenance Tab. Have a look at the
    Location. It has either .kde4 or .kde in the path.
     
    Substitute the appropriate path below.
     
    You need the following config files:
     
    :* .kde4/share/config/emaildefaults
    :* .kde4/share/config/emailidentities
    :* .kde4/share/config/kmail.eventsrc
    :* .kde4/share/config/kmailrc
    :* .kde4/share/config/kaddressbookrc
    :* .kde4/share/config/kresources/contact
    :* .kde4/share/config/korgacrc
    :* .kde4/share/config/korganizerrc
    :* .kde4/share/config/knotesrc
    :* .kde4/share/config/mailtransports


    and the following directories:
    <!--T:12-->
    and for urgent help, an IRC channel on Libera Chat


    :* .kde4/share/apps/kmail
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    :* .kde4/share/apps/kabc
    *for users and developers of Kontact - #kontact
    :* .kde4/share/apps/korganizer
    :* .kde4/share/apps/knotes


    If you use Akregator within Kontact, you will also need:
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    :* .kde4/share/config/akregator.eventsrc
    {{KontactInstall|Kontact}}
    :* .kde4/share/config/akregatorrc
    and the whole .kde4/share/apps/akregator directory.


    Of course the simplest way is just to keep your whole $home directory. :-)
    == More Information == <!--T:58-->


    Just a word of warning. If the directory naming is different between Desktops
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    or between the two versions of Fedora, this will not work as there are
    * [https://kontact.kde.org/ Kontact website]
    references to the directories within the config files. This means that if the
    * [https://docs.kde.org/index.php?language=en&package=pim All the manuals for KDE PIM]
    files were in a .kde directory, you cannot just put them in a .kde4 directory
    without editing the references within the config files.


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    [[Category:Office]]
    [[Category:Office]]
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    Latest revision as of 16:49, 27 July 2021


    Kontact is the integrated Personal Information Manager of KDE, but can be used with other systems as well.

    It supports email, address books, calendars, tasks, news feeds and much more.

    The Kontact suite is the powerful PIM solution of KDE that handles your email, agenda, contacts and other 'personal' data together in one place. Kontact delivers innovations to help you manage your communications more easily, organize your work faster and work together more closely, resulting in more productivity and efficiency in digital collaboration.

    Components

    KDE Kontact supports various groupware servers. When using these servers your workgroup has access to features like shared email folders, group task lists, calendar sharing, central address books and meeting scheduling.

    Kontact consists of the Kontact PIM back end and the graphical applications connecting to the back end. Special 'agents' (say a facebook agent) are employed to get new data in and merge it in the existing data set (for example contacts, news). Due to the clean infrastructure new agents are easy to develop.

    These programs together form Kontact:

    Where to get help

    Documentation for Kontact is available here.
    The KDE community forum is here.

    There is a mailing list at

    and for urgent help, an IRC channel on Libera Chat

    • for users and developers of Kontact - #kontact

    Download

    Kontact is available in all major Linux distribution repositories, as tarballs, and soon a Flatpak version will also be available. Ancient versions were compatible with Windows, the Kontact team is looking for help to improve Windows support. For more information look at the Kontact download page.

    Installation Instructions

    If you need help to install Kontact, look at this tutorial about how to install KDE software.


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