[ Thanks to Harri Porten
for this link. ]
“The last major stable release of KMail was in September 1999,
since that time KMail has undergone intensive continuous
development as part of the unstable HEAD branch of KDE CVS. This
prolonged period of development is drawing to a conclusion as a new
stable release of KMail (1.2) is imminent, this stable release will
be part of the upcoming KDE2 release. With a new stable release
approaching it’s time to review how the developments made to KMail
in the last year will benefit KMail users. All parts of the KMail
application have been worked on, I’ll comment on many of the KMail
components (main window and composer GUIs, settings and filter
dialogs, messaging kernel, and encryption system) as well as some
of the new components (search dialog and address book bridge).”
“The main window of KMail is used for reading and managing mail,
it consists of widgets for listing message headers, listing mail
folders, showing a message preview, along with the standard
toolbar, menubar and statusbar. Figure 1 shows a screen shot of the
revised KMail main window. This main window is similar to the old
KMail, differences include rearranged menus to better conform to
the KDE style guidelines, and all new icons for the toolbar and
folder list. Figure 1 also shows an example of the greatly improved
support for rendering HTML mail in KMail, this is due to the use of
the new KDE HTML widget, the same component as used in Konqueror.
Note, because HTML mail (even with java script and java disabled)
is a security risk it is turned off by default, however HTML mail
can be toggled on as a general preference, or perhaps better HTML
mail can be toggled on for arbitrary folders. In fact this is the
case for the KMail in Figure 1, where HTML mail is turned on only
for HTML periodicals that are filtered into a single HTML enabled
folder.”