Each menu item is discussed below. When there is a keyboard shorcut that performs a menu item function, it is listed after the menu item.
Creates a new Mail Reader window.
Saves the currently displayed message as a plain text file.
Prints the currently displayed message.
Checks for new mail in all your accounts.
Submenu that lets you check for new mail from a particular account.
Opens the Settings window.
Opens up the Addressbook.
Opens the Filter Rules window.
Closes the current Mail Reader window or exits KMail if there's only this one window.
Exits KMail.
Copies selected text to the clipboard.
Opens the New Folder dialog which lets you create a new folder.
Opens up the Modify Folder dialog which lets you change the settings for the selected folder.
Compacts the folder file to reduce its disk space usage. Use this command if your mailboxes seem to be much larger than they ought to be.
Moves all of the messages in the selected folder into the trash folder. If the selected folder is the trash folder, the messages are permanently deleted.
Removes the selected folder.
This will try to show even HTML mails as plain text.
Show the messages in the Header pane in a simple list or in a tree-like list.
Opens the Composer window so you can write a new mail.
Opens a search dialog that lets you search for messages. Note that this is not useful for searching a text in one certain message.
Selects the next message in the Headers pane.
Selects the next unread message in the Headers pane.
Selects the previous message in the Headers pane.
Selects the previous unread message in the Headers pane.
Opens up the Composer window with the contents of the selected message's Reply-To field in the To: field.
Opens up the Composer window and copies the contents of the selected message's Reply-To: and To: fields into the To: field, and the Cc: field into the Cc: field of the Composer window.
Forwards the message to a new recipient. The message's text will be copied into the body of the new message with a text marking the forwarded part. Attachments will be forwarded, too.
Works like forward, except that the message stays the same (even the From field, but "(redirected)" is added to the Subject). The user who redirected the message is added in special header fields (Redirect-From, Redirect-Date, Redirect-To, etc).
Sends the message back to the sender with a notice that it cannot be delivered. This is nearly exactly the message you get from a mail relay if the user does not exist.
Edits the selected message if it is editable. Only messages in the outbox folder can be edited.
Allows you to change the status of the selected message to one of the below:
New
Unread
Read
Replied
Queued
Sent
Selects all of the messages in the current folder.
Moves all of the selected messages to a certain folder.
Copies all of the the selected messages to a certain folder.
Moves the selected messages into the trash folder. If the selected messages are already in the trash folder, they will really be deleted.
With this command, you can undo Move and Delete operations.
Sends the message again.
Applies your filters to the selected messages.
Views the message and its complete headers in plain text format in a new window.
Changes the number of headers that are displayed and the formatting of the headers in the Message pane.
Changes the way that attachments appear in the Message pane.
Invokes the KDE help system with the KMail help pages displayed.
Open a window for you to report a bug. Please note that bug reports are only useful if you tell us exactly how to reproduce the bug. Also look at http://bugs.kde.org to see if the bug has been reported already.
Displays information about KMail.
Displays information about KDE.