Chapter 8. Writing E-mails with KMail

1. Configuring KMail
2. KMail's Interface
3. Composing a Message
4. Cryptography
4.1. Using a PGP Key

Abstract

There are many graphical mail clients under GNU/Linux: KMail, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Messenger, etc. KMail is a graphical mail client under GNU/Linux. It's integrated into a groupware client named Kontact. This chapter will describe how to configure and use KMail to compose, read and organize your e-mail messages.

You can launch KMail by selecting Internet->Mail->KMail from the main menu. As we proceed, please note that only the minimum configuration steps will be explained in this section.