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KMail

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KMail is the email component of Kontact, the integrated personal information manager of KDE. Kontact is a personal information manager and groupware software suite for KDE. It supports calendars, contacts, notes, to-do lists, news, and email.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Country of Origin

  • DE flagGermany
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Linux
  • BSD
3.5 / 5 Avg rating (2)
49likes
2comments
0news articles

Features

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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  Email Organizer
  2.  Spam Filter
  3.  Multiple Account support
  4.  Ad-free
  5.  Works Offline
  6.  Tray Icon

 Tags

  • kontact-component

KMail News & Activities

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Recent activities

  • thesuncitywitch liked KMail
    1 day ago
  • braky updated KMail
    about 2 months ago
  • arscynic reviewed KMail  
    8 months ago

    KMail could be a feature-rich powerhouse that outshines the alternatives, however, the settings UI is overwhelming, impractical and illogical. There's also too many unexpected default behaviours such as after successfully adding and syncing to a new email account, the draft/sent/trash folders remain local, and aren't synced with the identical folders online. As far as I know all other email clients I've used before do sync correctly.

  • arscynic, thelovelyluxi and mopsbublic liked KMail
    8 months ago
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KMail information

  • Developed by

    DE flagKDE
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.5
  • Alternatives

    54 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about KMail, and it has gotten 49 likes

KMail was added to AlternativeTo by wonko on Sep 5, 2009 and this page was last updated Mar 15, 2025. KMail is sometimes referred to as KMail.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
sfn6sdf2
Jul 11, 2020
0

Allows full signatures, extensive local filters & profiles per email account. Old LTS version from 2018 has a broken export.

arsCynic ??
Sep 14, 2024
0

KMail could be a feature-rich powerhouse that outshines the alternatives, however, the settings UI is overwhelming, impractical and illogical. There's also too many unexpected default behaviours such as after successfully adding and syncing to a new email account, the draft/sent/trash folders remain local, and aren't synced with the identical folders online. As far as I know all other email clients I've used before do sync correctly.

What is KMail?

KMail is the email component of Kontact, the integrated personal information manager of KDE. Kontact is a personal information manager and groupware software suite for KDE. It supports calendars, contacts, notes, to-do lists, news, and email. It uses KParts to embed the various applications (KMail, KAddressBook, Akregator, etc.) into the container application.

Differences between “Kontact” and “KDE PIM”: Technically speaking, Kontact only refers to a small umbrella application that unifies different stand-alone applications under one user interface. KDE PIM refers to a work group within the larger KDE project that develops the individual applications in a coordinated way.

In popular terms, however, Kontact often refers to the whole set of KDE PIM applications. These days many popular Linux distributions such as Kubuntu hide the individual applications and only place Kontact prominently.

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