You can find a quick introduction to the Accounts page in the Setting up your Account section.
This page allows you to create one or more (incoming and outgoing) accounts, that is, combinations of mail servers, login information and other settings. Typically, you will create one outgoing (used for sending messages) and one incoming (used to retrieve messages) account. You can create as many accounts as you want, though, and assign each one to different identities or decide on a per-message basis.
The Sending tab allows you to define new outgoing mail servers and set some common options.
For basic information, see Setting up your Account: Sending.
When you click or the Add transport or Modify transport dialogs will open respectively. For sending via sendmail or similar programs you can specify a name and the location of the sendmail program. For SMTP you can specify Name, Host, and Port of the server. Server requires authentication will enable the Login and Password fields and the Authentication method buttons on the Security tab. If you are not sure about the security settings you can make KMail test for the best settings by using .
Confirm before send will pop up a confirmation box every time you send a message.
Send messages in outbox folder lets you specify when queued messages, that is, messages in the outbox folder pending to be sent, should be sent. You can choose between:
Queued messages will only be sent if you select ->.
Queued messages will be sent after you have manually checked for new mail, for example, with ->. Of course, you can also manually send the queued messages with ->.
Queued messages will be sent after all checks for new mail, that is, after automatic mail checks as well as after manual mail checks. Of course, you can also manually send the queued messages with ->.
Default send method lets you define what happens when a message is sent. If Send now is selected, the message is sent to the mail server immediately, while if Send later is selected, the message is queued in the outbox to be sent later with the -> command or automatically when you check your mail, depending on the setting of Send messages in outbox folder above.
Message property lets you select how your message will be encoded when it is sent. Allow 8-bit means that KMail will send your message in 8-bit ASCII, which means that all special characters such as accented letters will be sent as-is. If MIME Compliant (Quoted Printable) is selected, special characters will be encoded using standard MIME encodings, which may be more portable to mailing systems other than 8-bit ASCII. We recommend to use MIME Compliant.
Even with Allow 8-bit selected KMail will use MIME Compliant encoding in some situations, for example for sending cryptographically signed messages.
Default domain lets you specify which domain name
should be used to complete email addresses that only consist of the recipient's user
name. For example when you set the default domain to kde.org
then messages you send to johndoe
will be sent to
johndoe@kde.org
.
For basic information, see Setting up your Account: Receiving.
Check mail on startup lets you specify whether KMail should check for new mail immediately after it has been started.
With New Mail Notification you can set how KMail will notify you if new messages have arrived: Beep will play a short beep sound; if Detailed new mail notification is enabled then KMail will show the number of new messages for each folder provided you have chosen to be notified with a dialog. More advanced notification options, like showing a dialog or running a certain command, are available via the button.
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