# Chapter 6. Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts

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.

# 6.1. The Main Mail Reader window

## 6.1.1. File Menu

New Mailreader

  Creates a new Mail Reader window.

Save As... (Ctrl+S)

  Saves the currently displayed message as a plain text file.

Print... (Ctrl+P)

  Prints the currently displayed message.

Check Mail (Ctrl+L)

  Checks for new mail in all your accounts.

Check Mail in... submenu

  Submenu that lets you check for new mail from a particular account.

Settings...

  Opens the Settings window.

Addressbook...

  Opens up the Addressbook.

Filters...

  Opens the Filter Rules window.

Close (Ctrl+W)

  Closes the current Mail Reader window or exits KMail if there's only this one window.

Quit (Ctrl+Q)

  Exits KMail.

## 6.1.2. Edit Menu

Copy (Ctrl+C)

  Copies selected text to the clipboard.

## 6.1.3. Folder Menu

Create...

  Opens the New Folder dialog which lets you create a new folder.

Modify...

  Opens up the Modify Folder dialog which lets you change the settings for the selected folder.

Compact

  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.

Empty

  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.

Remove

  Removes the selected folder.

Prefer plain text to HTML

  This will try to show even HTML mails as plain text.

(Don't) thread messages

  Show the messages in the Header pane in a simple list or in a tree-like list.

## 6.1.4. Message Menu

New Message (Ctrl+N)

  Opens the Composer window so you can write a new mail.

Search (S)

  Opens a search dialog that lets you search for messages. Note that this is not useful for searching a text in one certain message.

Next (N or the right arrow key)

  Selects the next message in the Headers pane.

Next Unread (+)

  Selects the next unread message in the Headers pane.

Previous (P or the left arrow key)

  Selects the previous message in the Headers pane.

Previous Unread (-)

  Selects the previous unread message in the Headers pane.

Reply... (R)

  Opens up the Composer window with the contents of the selected message's Reply-To field in the To: field.

Reply All... (A)

  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.

Forward... (F)

  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.

Redirect... (E)

  Works like forward, except that the message stays the same (even the From field, but "(redirected)" is added to the Subject). The user who redirected the message is added in special header fields (Redirect-From, Redirect-Date, Redirect-To, etc).

Bounce...

  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.

Edit... (T)

  Edits the selected message if it is editable. Only messages in the outbox folder can be edited.

Set Status submenu

  Allows you to change the status of the selected message to one of the below:

  - New

  - Unread

  - Read

  - Replied

  - Queued

  - Sent

Mark All (K)

  Selects all of the messages in the current folder.

Move to submenu

  Moves all of the selected messages to a certain folder.

Copy to submenu

  Copies all of the the selected messages to a certain folder.

Delete (D)

  Moves the selected messages into the trash folder. If the selected messages are already in the trash folder, they will really be deleted.

Undo (Ctrl+Z)

  With this command, you can undo Move and Delete operations.

Send Again...

  Sends the message again.

Apply Filters (Ctrl+J)

  Applies your filters to the selected messages.

View Source...

  Views the message and its complete headers in plain text format in a new window.

## 6.1.5. View Menu

Brief, Fancy, Standard, Long, and All Headers

  Changes the number of headers that are displayed and the formatting of the headers in the Message pane.

Iconic, Smart, and Inlined Attachments

  Changes the way that attachments appear in the Message pane.

## 6.1.6. Help Menu

Contents (F1)

  Invokes the KDE help system with the KMail help pages displayed.

Report Bug...

  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.

About KMail...

  Displays information about KMail.

About KDE...

  Displays information about KDE.