The whole menubar is the problem, all my old age customers, dont use menu at all. They only need few buttons what are needed for basic email using.

New(write)
Get emails
Reply
Forward
(some likes “next unread”)
Move to trash
Print

And menu bar can add all kind problems, because when they click it mistaken etc. File > quit is not needed because they close application from X (corner), like all other applications, they dont even know they can go “file > quit” because X is always there for them.

And this menu hiding allows even better customising for all others too who like to customise their KDE better. I didn’t even notice that other buttons ain’t needed for basic emails because i used default Kmail layout. And since few customising times, old/not-tech users dont have big problems to use email because it is just easier to use. It’s almost like paper mail for them now. But still i get questions how to remove menu bar.

This is current view of most of my (old age) customers
http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/6127/kmailwithmenutj3.jpg

How i would like to configure kmail for them, is the Ctrl+M option what would give this option:
http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/5728/kmailwithoutmenujk0.jpg

And this is just feedback what i have got from them.
It does not look “so important” from normal user but it would be great help for old users who dont need menu but what is always possible to get when they ask support on phone/email. And then it would be easy to tell “press ctrl button and M together, then you can see up a menu bar, select…”
Konqueror even have toolbar button “Show Menubar” what could be added so it’s not needed to press ctrl+M combination, this is important too for few users who has problems to locate ctrl or press two buttons same time (one of my customer has a parkinson so he forgets things).

I don’t work on KMail…

If you want to see a feature, try posting a wish to http://bugs.kde.org/

Thanks for the link.

I have a request: in KDE3’s kmail threaded view works quite well, too. Only one (quite simple) feature is not possible (afaik): I would like the threads to be sorted not according to their oldest, but their _newest_ message, so that a thread with new messaged comes to the top (or bottom) of the list and is easy to review. I.e. in your screenshot the “Qt-Copy update to 4.4″ thread should be way down in the message window.

Thanks for all your work on this amazing app!

Menu hiding is a important option, just as customising the toolbar buttons.
Same thing is applied to IE7, Firefox and even mozilla thunderbird has addon for this.

I still prefer KMess above everything else, and I hope it will be improved more.

If I may make a feature suggestion, I find myself using the message structure pane a lot to access attachments or the HTML version of an e-mail. That seams like a geeky-way to get things done. Can you make those message parts more natural to access (like most mail clients do, e.g. as in thunderbird).

Thanks!