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.
Will compact all folders, i.e. it will really move and delete the messages on disk according to how you have moved and deleted them in KMail.
Checks for new mail in all your accounts.
Submenu that lets you check for new mail from a particular account.
Sends the messages that are in your outbox.
Opens up the Address Book.
Closes the current Mail Reader window or exits KMail if there's only this one window.
Exits KMail.
Revoke you last move or delete action Note that you cannot undo a deletion in the trash.
Copies selected text to the clipboard.
Moves the selected messages in the trash folder. If the selected messages are already in the trash folder, they will really be deleted.
Opens up a search window that lets you search for messages with certain characteristics, e.g. 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.
Lets you search for a string in the current message.
Selects all messages in the current folder.
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.
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 show HTML messages using HTML rendering.
Show the messages in the Header pane in a tree-like list, with replies showing up directly under the message they reply to.
Opens the Composer window so you can write a new mail.
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). 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.
Sends the message again.
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
Moves all of the selected messages to a certain folder.
Copies all of the the selected messages to a certain folder.
Applies your filters to the selected messages.
Views the message and its complete headers in plain text format in a new window.
Opens the Configure window.
Opens the Filter Rules window.
Opens a window that lets you choose which icons are visible in the toolbar.
Invokes the KDE help system with the KMail help pages displayed.
Selecting this option changes the cursor to an arrow with a question mark. Now if you click on any component of the control panel pane, you get short context sensitive help about that item (sorry, not implemented yet).
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 (version, authors).
Displays information about KDE.