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Chapter 7. Email Applications 69

Figure 7-3. Evolution New Email Message Screen

Once you have composed a message and entered an email address to send the email to, click Send in

the toolbar.

For additional information, click on Help from Evolution’s toolbar.

7.2. KMail

KMail is an email tool for KDE, the K Desktop Environment. It has an intuitive graphical interface

that makes it simple to use. To open KMail, click on the main menu button on the panel and select

Internet => KMail.

Before you can really use KMail, you must conﬁgure it so it can send and receive mail. To run the

conﬁguration tool, select Settings from the KMail toobar, and click on Conﬁgure KMail.

The Conﬁgure Mail Client window consists of seven sections: Identity, Network, Appearance,

Composer, Mime Headers, Security, and Miscellaneous. To begin sending and receiving messages

you will only have to change the settings in the Identity and Network tabs.

For additional information, refer to the KMail user manual (Help => Contents) or visit KMail’s

homepage at http://kmail.kde.org.