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Fonts

This section allows you to change the type, size and character set of the display fonts. Message Body sets the font for the reader pane, Composer sets the font for writing messages in the composer window. There is a separate entry for Message List - Date Field so you can choose a monospaced font for the date field for better readability.

Colors

This section allows you to change the color of the text. Recycle colors on deep quoting means that even text that is quoted more than three times will appear in color. Note that the Quoted text colors only work in the message reader, not in the composer. If you want folders which are close to their quota (space allotment, usually used on IMAP servers) to be displayed in a different color, you can specify a percentage value as a threshold for this. The color to be used can be configured along with the other custom colors.

Layout

If the Close message window after replying or forwarding option is activated, KMail will close the message window after replying to or forwarding the message that is displayed in the window. This only applies to the separate message window, not to the embedded message preview pane.

Show HTML status bar activates a bar at the left side of the reader pane that tells you if a message is HTML or not. This is important because HTML messages might imitate the look of a signed and encrypted message, so you should be aware of the fact that you are reading a HTML message. The HTML status bar itself cannot be influenced by the HTML code of the message.

The Window Layout section lets you choose the layout of the main window. You can choose where you want the Message Preview Pane or choose not to have it at all.

The Message Structure Viewer option lets you choose when the structure viewer will be shown: the structure viewer is a part of the main window that lets you access all parts of a message. Show never will disable the structure viewer (note that you can still access attachments as icons), Show always will show the structure viewer even if there is only one plaintext part. Show only for non-plaintext messages will display the structure viewer only if it makes sense, i.e. if the current message has attachments or has HTML parts.

Headers

With Display message sizes selected there will be another column in the header pane that shows the messages' size.

Show crypto icons will add more status information to the Subject columns in the header pane: every message that has been signed will have a small Signed icon in front of the subject, every message that has been encrypted will have a small Encrypted icon in front of the subject. Note that you have to select a message once before these icons will appear, until then only question marks will be displayed.

Thread list of message headers will put all the messages in the header pane in a kind of tree list, so that the replies to a message are directly below that message.

With Message header threading options you can select whether threads should appear expanded (open) by default or whether they should be collapsed (closed). You can of course still open/close threads using the +/- buttons.

With Date Display you can choose between several date formats. The Localized Format is the one you can specify under Country & Language in KControl. For the Custom format you can get a description of the possible values by pressing Shift+F1 and then clicking on Custom option.

System Tray

If you enable the system tray icon then a small KMail icon with the number of unread messages will be shown in the system tray. You can enable KMail's system tray icon with Enable system tray icon, and with System Tray Mode you can specify whether the tray icon should always be shown or only if you have unread messages.

If the icon is visible then you can hide KMail's main window by clicking on the icon or by clicking on the window close button. By clicking on the icon you can make KMail's main window visible again. If you click on the icon with the right mousebutton then you get a menu with a few useful commands. You can check for new mail, create a new message or quit KMail. Additionally, there is the entry New Messages In which lists all folders containing unread messages. If you choose one of those folders then this folder will be selected in KMail's main window.

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