# Chapter 1. Introduction

The KMail Team welcomes you to KMail, a user-friendly mailer for the K Desktop Environment. Our goal is to make a mailer that is beautiful and intuitive without sacrificing power.

If you have never set up an email client on a Unix system before, we suggest that you read through the Getting Started section first so that your setup goes smoothly.

Since people don't read documentation anyway, here is a collection of the most helpful tips:

- When you're writing a new mail and you're in the To: field, only type the first few characters of the receiver's address, then press Ctrl+T to get a list of choices. These are taken from your addressbook, so keep your address book up to date and this feature will be very useful.

- You don't have to use your mouse to use KMail. Everything should be possible with keys. KMail supports all the standard keys like TAB (switch between panes). The trick is: cursor left/right always jumps to the previous/next message, but when you hold down Ctrl, you can use cursor left/right to navigate in the Folders pane or in the Headers pane (depending on what has the focus).

- In the Composer you can select text and drag it around with the mouse.

KMail's homepage is at http://devel-home.kde.org/~kmail/, an archive of the developer's mailing list is at lists.kde.org.

Bug reports and suggestions should go to `<kmail@kde.org>`.

We hope you will enjoy KMail!