<sect1 id="e-mail">

<sect1info>

<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Krishna</firstname>
<surname>Tateneni</surname>
<affiliation><address><email>
tateneni@pluto.njcc.com
</email></address></affiliation>
</author>
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</authorgroup>

<date>2002-02-12</date>
<releaseinfo>3.00.00</releaseinfo>

<keywordset>
<keyword>KDE</keyword>
<keyword>KControl</keyword>
<keyword>email</keyword>
<keyword>e-mail</keyword>
</keywordset>

</sect1info>

<title>Email</title>


<sect2 id="email-intro">
<title>Introduction</title>

<para>The email module of the &kcontrol; allows you to enter and save some
basic email information. This information is used when performing functions
related to email within &kde;, for example, when sending bug reports from the
&kde; crash handler application.</para>

<para>Programs such as &kmail;, which are used for reading and sending
email, may offer many more options for customizing the way in which
email is handled. These options depend upon the specific program being
used.  &kmail;, for instance, offers its own configuration
facilities.</para>

<para>Some of the information needed for configuring email should have
been provided by your internet service provider
(<acronym>ISP</acronym>). If you are connected to a local network, then
the system administrator of your network should be able to help
you.</para>

</sect2>

<sect2 id="email-use">
<title>Use</title>

<para>There are two areas of configuration in this module.  To help you
get started, some of the fields are automatically filled in using the
login information on the system.  Looking at the page from top to
bottom, these areas are:</para>

<variablelist>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>User Information</guilabel>:</term>
<listitem><para>Details for the user currently logged in.</para>
<para>In the text box labeled <guilabel>Full Name</guilabel>,
type your full name as you would like it to appear in the email
messages that you send. If you work for a company or
organization, you can enter its name in the text box labeled
<guilabel>Organization</guilabel>.</para>

<para>To be able to use email, you must enter your email
address in the text box labeled <guilabel>Email address</guilabel>.
If replies to your email messages should be sent to a different
address, you can enter that address in the text box labeled
<guilabel>Reply Address</guilabel>. Usually, however, this text
box should simply be left blank, and replies will go to your
email address as typed.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Preferred Email Client</guilabel>:</term>
<listitem><para>The email program which you use to send and
receive email (there may be more than one available on your
system.)</para>
<para>The default email program is <application>KMail</application>,
but you can change this either by typing the name of the program
in the provided text box, or by clicking on the
<guilabel>Browse...</guilabel> button, and selecting the
program using the dialog box that pops up.</para>
<para>If the program you want to use for email is a console or
text-based application (for example, the
<application>Pine</application> email program), check the
<guilabel>Run in terminal</guilabel> option.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

</variablelist>

<para>Your <acronym>ISP</acronym> should have given you a user name and
a password to log into the email server. Often, the user name is the
same as the part of the email address that comes before the
<literal>@</literal> character. </para>

</sect2>

<sect2 id="email-author">
<title>Section Author</title>

<para>This section written by:</para>
<para>Krishna Tateneni
<email>tateneni@pluto.njcc.com</email>.</para>
<para>Updated by Jost Schenck <email>jost@schenck.de</email>.</para>
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