Menu Entries
Each menu item is discussed below. When there is a keyboard shortcut that performs a menu item function, the default shortcut is listed with the menu item.

The Main Window

File Menu
File New Mail Client... 	 Creates a new main window.
S File Save As... 	 Saves the currently displayed message to a text file, including all the headers and attachments.
P File Print... 	 Prints the currently displayed message.
File Compact All folders 	 Will compact all folders, it will really move and delete the messages on disk according to how you have moved and deleted them in .
File Expire All folders 	 Delete old messages from all folders, according to the rules in each folder's Properties dialog (the default is not to delete old messages at all).
L File Check Mail 	Checks for new messages in all your accounts, except those that have Exclude from "Check Mail" enabled.
File Check Mail In 	 Submenu that lets you check for new messages from a particular account.
File Send Queued 	 Sends the messages that are in your outbox.
File Import... 	 Starts up kmailcvt (which is part of kdenetwork). This application lets you import messages from several proprietary mail clients to .
W File Close 	 Closes the current main window or exits if there's only this one window.

Edit Menu
Z Edit Undo 	 Revoke you last move or delete action. Note that you cannot undo a deletion in the trash.
C Edit Copy Text 	 Copies selected text to the clipboard.
D Edit Delete 	 Moves the selected messages in the trash folder. If the selected messages are already in the trash folder, they will really be deleted.
S Edit Search Messages... 	 Opens up a search window that lets you search for messages with certain characteristics, ⪚ a certain subject. Start the search by entering some values and press Search. Click on one of the resulting messages and it will appear in the Message pane.
F Edit Find In Message... 	 Lets you search for a string in the current message.
Edit Select All Messages 	 Selects all messages in the current folder.
A Edit Select Message Text 	 Selects the text of the currently displayed message.

View Menu
View Brief Headers View Fancy Headers View Standard Headers View Long Headers View All Headers 	 Changes the number of headers that are displayed and the format of the headers in the Message pane.
View Iconic Attachments View Smart Attachments View Inlined Attachments 	 Changes the way that attachments appear in the Message pane. With Iconic Attachments all attachments appear as icons at the bottom of the message. Inlined Attachments shows the attachments at the bottom of the message. Attachments that cannot be displayed, ⪚ compressed files, will still be shown as an icon. Smart Attachments will show attachments as icons, unless they are so-called inline attachments.
View Fixed Font Widths 	 Uses a fixed width (monospace) font to display the messages in the current folder. The font to be used can be configured in the Appearance section of 's configuration dialog.

Folder Menu
Folder Create... 	 Opens the Create Folder dialog which lets you create a new folder. You can make this new folder a sub folder if you choose a parent folder using the Belongs to selection. The folder can be either in mbox or in maildir format. mbox saves all messages of one folder to one file, whereas maildir saves each message to its own file. maildir can be considered more robust, but it can be slower on some file systems. Note that there's currently no feature in that allows to convert between both formats automatically (but you can just move all messages from an old mbox folder to a new maildir folder).
If you're going to use the folder for a mailing list you may want to add the mailing list address in the Associated Mailing List section. You will then be able to use the Message Reply list... menu item. It will open a reply with the mailing list address in the To: field ( it will ignore the Reply-To of the message). You can also click the middle mousebutton in the Folders pane to post to a mailing list that is associated with that folder.
The Old Message Expiry section lets you automatically delete old messages when you exit (depending on your settings in 's Miscellaneous configuration page) or via File Expire All Folders.
With the Identity section you can set your default identity for new messages. Replies to messages that where sent directly to you will still default to the message's To address if an according identity is found.
With Show Sender/Receiver you can set the visible columns in the header pane. This is useful if you use the current folder for your own sent messages.
Folder Properties... 	 Opens up the Modify Folder dialog which lets you change the settings for the selected folder.
Folder Mark All Messages as Read 	 Sets the status of all new and unread messages in the current folder to read.
Folder Compact 	 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.
Folder Expire 	 Delete old messages from the current folder, according to the rules in the folder's Properties dialog (the default is not to delete old messages at all).
Folder Empty 	 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.
Folder Remove 	 Removes the selected folder and all its contents.
Note that there's no way to access the contents of a folder after it has been removed.
Folder Prefer HTML to Plain Text 	 This will show HTML messages using HTML rendering. For security reasons, we recommend to only activate this for trusted messages.
Folder Thread messages 	 Shows the messages in the Header pane in a tree-like list, with replies showing up directly under the message they reply to.

Message Menu
N Message New Message... 	 Opens the composer window so you can write a new mail. If the current folder holds a mailing list and has a Post Address defined, this address will be default To: address.
N Message Next 	 Selects the next message in the Headers pane. The keyboard shortcut Right Arrow also performs this action.
+ Message Next Unread 	 Selects the next unread message in the Headers pane.
P Message Previous 	 Selects the previous message in the Headers pane.
- Message Previous Unread 	 Selects the previous unread message in the Headers pane.
R Message Reply... 	 Opens up the composer window with the contents of the selected message's Reply-To field in the To: field. By default this will automatically set your identity to the one which this message was sent to.
A Message Reply All... 	 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.
L Message Reply List... 	 Opens up the composer with the To: field set to the mailing list address. Of course this will only work if you configured the current folder to be associated with a mailing list. Otherwise the To: field will be empty.
R Message Reply Without Quote... 	 Opens up the composer to reply but does not quote the text of the original message.
F Message Forward... 	 Forwards the message to a new recipient. The message's text and some important header fields will be copied to the body of the new message with a text marking the forwarded part. Attachments will be forwarded, too.
F Message Forward as Attachment 	 Forwards the message to a new recipient as an attachment. The original message headers will be included in the forwarded message, too. Attachments in the original message will also be in the forwarded message's attachment.
E Message Redirect... 	 Works like forward, except that the message stays the same (even the From field). The user who redirected the message is added in special header fields (Redirect-From, Redirect-Date, Redirect-To, ).
Message Bounce... 	 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. Some people use this option to reply to spam.
Message Send again... 	 Opens a composer window with this message so it can be sent again.
Message Set Encoding 	 Lets you choose the character encoding to be used in the Message Pane. The default, Auto, should work in almost all cases.
T Message Edit 	 Edits the selected message if it is editable. Only messages in the outbox and drafts folder can be edited.
Message Create filter 	 Opens up the Filter dialog with a new filter added. This new filter is based on fields of the current mail, depending on which sub menu you select.
Message Mark Message 	 Allows you to change the status of the selected message to one of the following states (more than one status per message is currently not supported):
Status	Symbol	Meaning
New	Red dot	The message has been received for the first time, and is unread.
Unread	Green dot	The message has already been retrieved off the server at least once, but has not yet been read.
Read	Dash	The message has been read.
Replied	Blue u-turn arrow	A reply to this message has been sent.
Queued	Envelope	The message has been queued in the outbox to be sent later.
Sent	Angled envelope	The message has been sent.
Important	Flag	This status will not automatically be set by . You can use it freely to mark messages that are in some way important to you.
Message Mark Thread 	 Allows you to change the status of all messages in a thread. The possible states are the same as for Message Mark Message.
Message Move To 	 Moves all of the selected messages to a certain folder.
Message Copy To 	 Copies all of the the selected messages to a certain folder.
J Message Apply Filters 	 Applies your filters to the selected messages.
V Message View Source... 	 Shows the message and its complete headers in plain text format in a new window. This can be useful to find out the origin of a mail. You should know that it's easy to fake the From: header of a mail, but one can still find out which mail servers have been used by looking at the Received: lines in the header.

Settings Menu
Settings Show Toolbar 	 If enabled, the Toolbar is visible (the Toolbar is the one with the icon to compose a new message ).
Settings Show Statusbar 	 If enabled, the Statusbar is visible (the Statusbar is the small one on the bottom which shows useful short messages and link targets).
Settings Configure Shortcuts... 	 Opens a window that lets you configure the keyboard shortcuts for many menu commands.
Settings Configure Toolbars... 	 Opens a window that lets you choose which icons are visible in the toolbar.
Settings Configure ... 	 Opens the Configure window.
Settings Configure Filters... 	 Opens the Message Filters window.
Settings Configure Pop Filters... 	 Opens the Configure Pop Filters window.

Help Menu

The Composer Window

Message Menu
Return Message Send 	 Sends the message immediately. If you use SMTP to send your messages and the SMTP server is not reachable, the message will be put into the outbox and you will get an error message. You can then later send the messages in the outbox using File Send Queued.
Message Queue 	 Queues the message in the outbox for sending it later using File Send Queued.
Message Save in Drafts Folder 	 Save the message in the drafts folder so you can edit and send it later.
Messages Insert File... 	 Inserts a text file into the message, starting at the cursor position.
P Message Print... 	 Prints the current text.
Message Addressbook... 	 Opens up the address book.
N Message New Composer... 	 Opens up a new composer window.
W Message Close 	 Closes this composer window.

Edit Menu
Z Edit Undo 	 Undo your steps in editing the current mail.
Z Edit Redo 	 Redo your steps in editing the current mail.
X Edit Cut 	 Cutting text works as with most editors. You can also select text and drag it to a new position.
C Edit Copy 	 Copying text works as with most editors. You can also select text while holding the key, and drag it to a new position, to have it copied and not cut.
V Edit Paste 	 Pasting works the same as for most editors.
A Edit Select All 	 Selects all of the text in your message.
F Edit Find... 	 Finds strings in the message.
R Edit Replace... 	 Lets you replace strings in your message with other strings.
Edit Clean Spaces 	 This replaces multiple line breaks resp. spaces with single line breaks resp. spaces. It works on the current selection or on the complete message if there is no selection.
Edit Spelling... 	 Uses to check the spelling in the body of your message. Note that you have to configure with Settings Spellchecker... if you use it for the first time.

View Menu
This menu lets you toggle the display of the header fields and other options in this composer window.
Options available are:
All Fields
Identity
Sent-Mail folder
Mail Transport
From
Reply To
To
Cc
Bcc
Subject
Currently visible items have a checkmark shown next to their name in the menu.
Edit Fixed Font Widths 	 Uses a fixed width (monospace) font to display the messages in the current folder. The font to be used can be configured in the Appearance section of 's configuration dialog.

Options Menu
Options Urgent 	 Sets the priority of the message to Urgent. The receiver's mail client has to support this or it will have no effect. itself does not support priorities for incoming messages.
Options Confirm Delivery 	 If you choose this option, you request a confirmation email once your message is successfully delivered to its destination mail server. This has to be also supported from the receiver's side in order to work.
Options Confirm Read 	 If you choose this option, you request a confirmation email once your message is downloaded and read by its recipient. This has to be supported and enabled by the receiver's mail client in order to work.
Options Sign Message 	 Digitally sign the message using OpenPGP. You can learn more about this in the chapter on OpenPGP.
Options Encrypt Message 	 Encrypt the message using OpenPGP. You can learn more about this in the chapter on OpenPGP.
Options Set Encoding 	 Set the charset encoding of this message. The chosen encoding will appear in the header of the outgoing mail. You can use Auto for almost all cases, will tell you if you need to select a different encoding manually.
Options Wordwrap 	 Toggle the automatic wordwrap. It may be useful to turn it off if you want to paste long lines that shouldn't wrap.

Attach Menu
This menu lets you select attachment options.
Attach Append Signature 	 Appends your signature (footer) to the end of the message.
Attach Attach Public Key... 	 Attaches the corresponding PGP/GnuPG key to your message using the default encoding.
Attach Attach My Public Key 	 Attaches your PGP/GnuPG public key to your message using the default encoding.
Attach Attach File... 	 Attaches a file to the message using the encoding you select in the dialog. The dialog allows to select more than one file using the key.
Attach Remove 	 Removes the attachment that is selected in the attachment window.
Attach Save... 	 Saves the attachment that is selected in the attachment window to a file.
Attach Properties... 	 Displays the properties of the attachment that is selected in the attachment window.

Settings Menu
Settings Show Toolbar 	 If enabled, the Toolbar is visible (the Toolbar is the one with the icon to send the message ).
Settings Show Statusbar 	 If enabled, the Statusbar is visible (the Statusbar is the small one at the bottom which shows useful short messages).
Settings Configure Shortcuts... 	 Opens a window that lets you configure the keyboard shortcuts for many menu command.
Settings Configure Toolbars... 	 Opens a window that allows you to decide which icons appear in the toolbar.
Settings Spellchecker... 	 Allows you to configure , 's spellchecker.

Help Menu
The entries in this menu have the same meaning as the entries in the Mailreader's help menu.