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<tip category="KMail|Keyboard">
<html>
<p>...that you can go to the next and previous message by using the
right and left arrow keys respectively?</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KMail|Filters">
<html>
<p>...that you can rapidly create filters on sender, recipient,
subject and mailing lists with <em>Tools-&gt;Create&nbsp;Filter</em>?</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KMail|Filters">
<html>
<p>...that you can get rid of the &quot;[mailing list name]&quot;
added to the subject of some mailing lists by using the <em>rewrite
header</em> filter action? Just use
<pre>rewrite header &quot;Subject&quot;
   replace &quot;\s*\[mailing list name\]\s*&quot;
   with &quot;&quot;</pre>
</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KMail|General">
<html>
<p>...that you can associate mailing lists with folders in the
<em>Folder-&gt;Mailing List Management</em> dialog? You can then use
<em>Message-&gt;New&nbsp;Message&nbsp;to&nbsp;Mailing&nbsp;List...</em>
to open the composer with the mailing list address preset.
Alternatively, you can click with the middle mouse button on the folder.</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KMail|General">
<html>
<p>...that you can assign custom icons to each folder individually?
See <em>Folder-&gt;Properties</em></p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KMail|Security">
<html>
<p>...that KMail can show a color bar indicating the type of message
(Plain text/HTML/OpenPGP) currently displayed?</p>
<p>This thwarts attempts to fake successful signature verification by
sending HTML mails mimicking KMail's signature status frames.</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KMail|Filters">
<html>
<p>...that you can filter on any header by simply entering its name
in the first edit field of a search rule?</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KMail|Filters">
<html>
<p>...that you can filter out HTML only messages with the rule
<pre>&quot;Content-type&quot; contains &quot;text/html&quot;?</pre>
</p>
</html>
</tip>

<tip category="KMail|General">
<html>
<p>...that when replying, only the selected part of the message is quoted?</p>
<p>If nothing is selected, the full message is quoted.</p>
<p>This even works with text of attachments when
<em>View-&gt;Attachments-&gt;Inline</em> is selected.</p>
<p>This feature is available with all reply commands except
<em>Message-&gt;Reply Without Quote</em>.</p>
<p align="right"><em>contributed by David F. Newman</em></p>
</html>
</tip>