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=KMail: Tools=
{{Warning|1=Please understand that the software and documentation provided here is mostly not written by the KMail team, so they cannot provide support for it. In fact they often cannot even test these applications - ''use at your own risk.'' Some of these utilities are extremely old}}

==Mail Import Tools==
You should first try to import your old mail using '''KMail''''s <menuchoice>File -> Import Messages...</menuchoice> menu.

If you need to import mails and directory structure from '''Outlook''', you can use '''Thunderbird''' (Windows version) to import '''Outlook''' data, then you can use the '''Kmail''' import from '''Thunderbird''' and point the directory where the'''Thunderbird''' data has been saved.

If that doesn't work, the following programs might be helpful:

* [http://alioth.debian.org/projects/libpst/ readpst], a utility for converting '''Microsoft Outlook''' mail files (personal folders) to standard UNIX mbox format, Added 2005-01-24

* [https://outport.sourceforge.net/ Outport], a program for exporting data from '''Outlook''' to '''Evolution''', from which '''KMail''' can import messages, Added 2004-07-23

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071008235210/kmail.kde.org/unsupported/mozilla2kmail.pl mozilla2kmail.pl], a simple bash script to convert mail from '''Mozilla''' to '''KMail''', Added 2004-06-12

* [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Outlook-to-Unix-Mailbox.html MS Outlook to Unix Mailbox Conversion mini HOWTO] - just in case the tools above don't work for you. Updated 2004-01-08

* [http://www.panayotis.com/prog/scripts/sylpheed.html Sylpheed2Maildir], a simple bash script to convert a '''sylpheed''' mail box directory to maildir format. Added 2003-05-27

* [https://eudora2unix.sourceforge.net/ Eudora2Unix], a collection of Python scripts that together convert Qualcomm '''Eudora''' mail folders to mail directories for unix or Linux. Updated 2003-03-31

* [http://www.informatik-vollmer.de/software/mh2maildir.html mh2maildir transformator], a small shellscript for transforming mails from MH format to Maildir format. Added 2002-11-06

* [https://sourceforge.net/projects/ol2mbox/ ol2mbox], '''Outlook Express''' to mbox converter (not maintained anymore). Added 2002-02-09

* [https://msquadrat.de/projects/tb2kmail/ tb2kmail], a tool to export mail from '''The Bat''' to '''KMail'''. Added 2002-01-07

* [http://www.david-guembel.de/index.php?id=12 KMail filters for GPG and RFC-2015-compliant mails]. Added 2001-07-15

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20041211080655/http://kmail.kde.org/unsupported/xfmail2mbox.sh xfmail2mbox.sh], a shell script by Jörg Reinhardt <joeyhh(at)gmx.de> to convert xfmail folders to mbox (which is used by '''KMail'''). Requires awk. Updated 2001-02-12

==Mail Export Tools==

* [https://www.mhonarc.org/ MHonArc], a mail-to-HTML converter. Added 2003-03-31

* [http://www.bernreuther.net/martin/software/KDE/tKMailHonArc/ tKMailHonArc], a frontend for MHonArc to convert '''KMail''' email folders (mbox, maildir) to HTML. Added 2003-03-31

* [https://www.acjlaw.net:8080/~jeremy/Ricoh/scripts.html#mbox2pdf mbox2pdf], perl script for converting an email mbox to a hyperlinked pdf. Uses hypermail-2.2.0 and LaTeX. Added 2011-08-11.

==Addressbook Import Tools==

* [http://catb.org/~esr/lookout/ lookout], a small Python script that enables you to convert your '''Outlook 97''' addressbook data to '''KAB'''. Added 2002-07-31

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071009103646/kmail.kde.org/unsupported/pineToKMail pineToKMail], a perl script to convert a '''pine''' addressbook to a '''KMail''' addressbook.

==Development and Security==

* [http://www.slac.com/~mpilone/projects/kde/kmailssh/index.html HOWTO on how to use the Precommand feature of KMail for SSH tunneling], Added 2003-04-19

* [[Special:myLanguage/Concepts/OpenPGP_For_Beginners|Explanation of OpenPGP concepts for beginners]]

* Gregor Waluga has written a German tutorial on how to use '''KMail''' and '''GnuPG''': [https://web.archive.org/web/20061015202437/http://www.linuxnetmag.com/de/issue8/m8kmailgpg1.html Mit KMail verschlüsselte E-Mails verschicken] (download as [https://web.archive.org/web/20071013123902/http://www.waluga.de/linux/tutorials/tutorials.htm as PDF here]).

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071009103618/http://kmail.kde.org/unsupported/kmail_over_ssh.txt Setting up KMail over ssh] (by Ferdinand Gassauer)

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061210081157/http://kmail.kde.org/mail-client-QA.gz Mail client test file v0.5] (55kB): This mbox file triggers some bugs and has very long field values to trigger buffer overflows. You may use this to find possible security problems - not only in '''KMail''', but in any mail client that supports mbox folders. Just copy this file to ~/Mail/ and start '''KMail'''.

==Anti-Spam Tools==

* [http://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/16/spam-filtering-with-kmail/ Spam filtering with Kmail] October 16, 2009 - Last Update: February 13, 2018

* (Polish) [https://web.archive.org/web/20081216160551/http://yaro.gdi.pl/linux/spamassassin.html Spamassassin na localhost na Mdk.10], a description of how to use '''KMail''' and '''SpamAssassin''', Added 2004-05-14

* (German) [https://www.pro-linux.de/artikel/2/950/mini-howto-fuer-bogofilter-mit-kmail.html Mini-HOWTO für bogofilter mit KMail], Added 2003-11-07

* [http://www.techforce.com.br/news/quem_somos/linux/mini_how_to_kmail_and_spamoracle KMail and SpamOracle Mini HOWTO]  This is a description of how to configure '''KMail''' to filter spam using '''SpamOracle''' (Bayesian self-learning algorithm filtering for English and non-English messages) on IMAP and POP accounts without using '''procmail''', Updated 2004-01-19

* [http://www.softwaredesign.co.uk/Information.SpamFilters.html KMail and SpamAssassin resp. Quick Spam Filter (qsf)], a more detailed article than the one below, Added 2003-06-30

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081031150245/http://kmail.kde.org/unsupported/spamd Startup script for SpamAssassin] (Christian Banik <christian at buschaos.de>, 2002-07-11) This is a startup script for '''SpamAssassin''' in SuSE Linux 8.0. You can install '''SpamAssassin''' from the RPMs. You have to remove the old startup script /etc/rc.d/init.d/spamassassin and copy this script to /etc/init.d/spamd. cd to /etc/init.d and call insserv spamd. On the next bootup, SpamAssassin will be activated.

==Other Tools and Patches==

* [http://www.tiros.net/pfeiffer/bin/lyris_filter Lyris Filter], a script to repair broken IDs and In-Reply-To headers produced by the commercial listserve product Lyris, Updated 2005-01-16

* [http://kmail.kde.org/unsupported/eudorafilters2kmail.pl eudorafilters2kmail.pl], Perl script to import filters from '''Eudora''', Added 2003-05-09

* [http://jice.free.fr/kmailpt/ KMail power tools] to save and remove attachments from emails, Added 2009-09-23

'''Script to filter by header (by Marc Mutz)'''
 
This perl script can be used with a ''pipe through'' filter action after a <menuchoice>remove header -> Reply-To</menuchoice> action. It's useful for people who want to change certain headers based on the content of other headers. This is something '''KMail''' filters currently do not support, but is useful here and there.

This particular script replaces (if used in conjunction with the <menuchoice>remove header -> Reply-To</menuchoice> action) the Reply-To header of mails sent from a Debian-style bugtracking system with <bugno>@bugs.kde.org. This is useful if bug reports are delivered to developers through a mailinglist that overwrites the Reply-To header with its post address:

{{Input|1=#!/usr/bin/perl
 $endOfHeader = 0;
 while (<>) {
 if ( $endOfHeader == 0 )
 {
 if ( /^(?i:Subject):\s+Bug\#(\d{4,5}):/ )
 {
 $_ = "Reply-To: $1\@bugs.kde.org\n".$_;
 }
 elsif ( /^$/ )
 {
 $endOfHeader = 1;
 }
 }
 print;
 };
}}

* [http://kmail.kde.org/unsupported/uniqmail uniqmail], a small bash/sed script that removes mail duplicates from mbox files.

* '''Using KMail and [http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html Maildir]''' (by Georg Lehner, jorge(at)toa.magma.com.ni): 
'''qmail''' delivers (with standard Maildir setup) Mail into the subdirectories of ~/Maildir/, that means, personal mail never goes to a "public" directory (e.g. /var/spool/mail/) as is the case with traditional mail transport agents.

'''qmail''' provides a command: '''maildir2mbox''', to re-"deliver" mail from ~/Maildir/ to this namely public directory, we wrap this command into a script: '''qmail2kmail'''.

'''KMail''' is set up to read mail from the "traditional" place, but '''qmail2kmail''' is run before checking mail via the precommand directive in the configuration, so it finds all incoming mail where it is supposed to find it in a traditional setup.

'''Setup: '''
My '''qmail''' binaries reside in /var/qmail/bin, which is most probably not the "right" place to put them, so fix this on your system and in the '''qmail2kmail''' script.

I installed '''qmail2kmail''' in /usr/local/bin, I suppose it should be world executable, or at least by the qmail-groups, if you are concerned about security you should know how to figure out and rewrite these instructions.

In the '''KMail''' configuration you should have something similar to:

{{Output|1=
  [Account 1]
  Folder=inbox
  Name=Mi correo en TOA
  Type=local
  check-exclude=false
  check-interval=0
  precommand=/usr/local/bin/qmail2kmail
}}
 
and everything should work fine. Here comes '''qmail2kmail''':

{{Input|1=
 #!/bin/sh
 #
 # LEG06012001
 # Convert Mails in Maildir format in ~/Maildir/ to mbox format in ~/Mail/inbox
 # as required by Kmail.

MAILDIR=~/Maildir/
  MAILTMP=tmpdir
  MAIL=/var/mail/$USER
  export MAILDIR MAILTMP MAIL

/var/qmail/bin/maildir2mbox
}}
              
Note that "tmpdir" is a scratchfile and will be overwritten, so if you happen to have a file tmpdir in the place where '''maildir2mbox''' wants to create it, you will get in trouble.

A solution would be to use the '''tempfile''' command, but it happens to not exist on every Unix, so a local solution will have to be found if necessary. If '''qmail2kmail''' doesn't run in the $USER's homedirectory (which I did not check out) I would strongly recommend to use at least:

{{Input|1=MAILTMP=$USER/.qmailtemp
}}
 
Note that I also successfully installed '''qmail-pop3d''' and fetched mail via POP3 from the local host, but it is slower and clumsier.

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