Kmail KDE displayed mail header format

[ercoupeflyer]

Hi, this may seem trivial but, is there a way to set the default header display format when you open a mail message in k-mail?

It always opens on the all header format, I would like to set it to default to the enterprise header format, I just don't seem to be able to see where to set that choice as the default!

Ummm, help!

Thanks

[dwhitbeck]

try editing the file
~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc

change the line, header-set-displayed=whatever to header-set-displayed=enterprise

back up the kmailrc file first
at least this worked for me to display standard headers

[ercoupeflyer]

Thank You!

You would not happen to know, why there is no way to set this from the user interface would you, seems kind of strange!

Thanks again.

[ercoupeflyer]

Hi, I had to change the one under that from plain, to
header-style=enterprise, to get the nicely formatted header

ummm, still think it's strage there is no way to set that from the actual interface!

[dwhitbeck]

I don't know why you can't change the header settings within settings/configure kmail or something. I could not even find any documentation about changing the header settings, but discovered this by trial and error.
Thanks for the tip about header-style.

[syampillai]

From the menu choose View->Headers.

[dwhitbeck]

Seems that that option is not persistent. It only makes the change one time for one email.

[syampillai]

It is persistent. Please note that there is a lot of development happening to kmail/kontact for the next release.
I am on:
kontact 4.3.0 pre
kmail 1.11.90

[dwhitbeck]

OK, the results I get are with KDE 2.2.2, kmail 1.11.2. If you open a particular email, the view menu has a header option which is not persistent. The view menu on the main page has no such option. I will see if I can upgrade kmail. Thanks for the info.

[syampillai]

The latest kontact/kmail will be brought in along with KDE updates.