KMail
 KMail is an email
client included with the KDE
desktop. It is the email component of Kontact,
a integrated personal information manager.
Kmail supports folders, filtering, viewing HTML mail, and
international character sets. It can also handle IMAP, dIMAP, POP3, and
local mailboxes for incoming mail. It can send mail via SMTP or
sendmail.
Importantly, KMail supports the OpenPGP
standard and can automatically encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify
signatures of email messages and its attachments via either the inline
or OpenPGP/MIME method of signing/encryption.
Features include:
- Maildir support
- Address book
- Expiry of old messages
- Automatic encryption using OpenPGP (PGP or GnuPG)
- Supported protocols: POP3, IMAP (both also work with SSL
and TLS)
- SSL/TLS support for POP3
- Pipelining for POP3 and SMTP (faster mail download on slow
responding networks)
- On-demand downloading or deleting without downloading of
big mails on a POP3 server
- SMTP authentication
- SMTP over SSL/TLS
- DIGEST-MD5 authentication
- Nested mail folders
- Powerful mail filters
- Mailinglist aware folders
- Drafts folders
- Full support for mails in all languages and charsets
supported by Qt
- Import of other mail clients' folders
- Search dialog
- Support for reading HTML mails
- Editor supports spell checking, undo/redo
- Threaded messages view
- Multiple identities
- Colorfied indenting (i.e. text that's quoted has a
different color)
- Background sending and downloading of mail
- KDE
integration such as drag and drop
- Automatic popup address completion (similar to Konqueror)
- Support for custom colors and fonts
- Mail bouncing capability (anti-spam)
- UTF-7 support
- PGP/MIME (RFC 3156) support for GnuPG
users
- S/MIME support
- Optional compression of attachments
- Import mail from Evolution
2.x, Opera
and Thunderbird
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KMail also features in our 'Linux
Equivalents to Windows Software' section. The category
selector below allows you to filter the different types of software
included in that separate article.
Last Updated Monday, August 10 2009 @ 01:26 PM EDT
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