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KMail is the default email client for the K Desktop Environment (KDE) and Kubuntu, and is a component of the Kontact personal information manager.

KMail is the default email client for the K Desktop Environment (KDE) and Kubuntu, and is a component of the Kontact personal information manager.

See Ubuntu Email client documentation.

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Can I connect to my company's Exchange server through Kontact?

Running Kubuntu 11.04 (Natty) and am trying to replace Outlook. I need access to calendaring and email but have not been able to figure things out. A Google of things doesn't give me very good information so turning here to ask the gurus. System…
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SETUP for sending Mail via postfix to GMAIL

My knowledge of mail delivery systems is near ZERO I have stand alone PC running UBUNTU 12.04 (no other OP systems) I am developing a web system with PHP and want to send an email to users that have registered. I have installed POSTFIX and set it up…
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Sign in with Google temporarily disabled for this app

Yesterday, I've discovered that KMail (5.7.3) on my Kubuntu 18.04 doesn't synchronize with Google mail inbox. I tried to re-create the gmail account, but after logging into Google I received the following message: Sign in with Google temporarily…
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Replace evolution with Kontact?

Can I remove evolution from gnome to replace it with Kontact? Meaning: Make all apps use kmail as Mailer. Make Openoffice use kaddressbook get korganizer to show up in the indiciator calendar start akonadi at gnome start make tracker index…
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How to reset kmail?

There must be some corruption to my message store (pop3) as kmail keeps crashing and hanging. I followed the following info to try and reset kmail: https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/pim/kmail/clean-start-after-a-failed-migration.html but after point…
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Setup Kmail with Gmail

I want to use IMAP to connect Kmail to Gmail. After setting up the account via wizard in kmail, I get this error (I replaced my email address with abc) : The server for account "Google Mail (abc)" refused the supplied username and password. Do you…
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Why does Akonadi on KDE 4.6.0 refuse to start?

Akonadi refuses to start on my fresh installation of KDE 4.6.0 from the kubuntu-backports PPA on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, preventing me from usking KMail. Here is the full error output: patches@pleistocene:~/.local/share$ akonadictl…
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Disable Kmail running in background

I was using Kmail for awhile on Kubuntu 16.04, but had to stop using it due to a few things I didn't like so I switched to Thunderbird. Now that I don't want to use Kmail anymore I would also like to disable its notifications and stop it from…
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Oauth 2 in kmail in ubuntu 16.04

I am trying to connect gmail using kmail from Ubuntu 16.04, but it is not connecting. After doing google search I came to know that, gmail using oauth 2 for authentication of desktop app. Is there a way I can use oauth in kmail for gmail in Ubuntu…
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Akonadi and Kmail using 100% CPU

I've been using KMail for a month or two now and have so far had no problems with it. However, today my laptop died after the battery ran out of power, and since then whenever I log in I see a steady 100% CPU use from the following…
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How do I completely purge ALL kontact and akonadi configuration?

I have a very specific problem with Kmail. I cannot login to one of my imap mail accounts. 3x other imap mail accounts are working perfectly but not that one. I first thought it might be the mail account, but when I tried it on a fresh Kubuntu vm…
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How to upgrade kmail

Here all version of my system : DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS" Plasma Version 5.8.7 KDE Frameworks Version 5.36.0 QT version : 5.6.1 Kernel Version 4.4.0-83-generic My kmail version is 5.2.3 and I can not get any…
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Kmail migration issues in 11.10

I've only just upgraded my Kubuntu to 11.10. I had heard there were issues with the new Kmail2 that uses a different database. Details at https://wiki.kubuntu.org/OneiricOcelot/Final/Kubuntu/Kmail2 This also says that the conversion tool that…
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Migrating from kmail to thunderbird

I like the kmail interface, but I've had problems with it for years and in the last few days it has become unusable: it keeps locking up or crashing and there's no solution on the 'net. I won't go into details as I'm sick of it. I tried reseting its…
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keep kmail folders on external hard drive

I have limited space on my local hard drive. With thunderbird I can easily keep all my mail on a folder on an external hard drive by moving the thunderbird profile folder to the external disk and creating a symbolic link to it on my home folder.…
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