She wants to be able to just get, when KMail opens, a listing of her folders and incoming mail. As most know, we get that, but the first mail is always selected and shown in the window below. The lady does not want KMail to act on any mail until she chooses to do so. She only wants a mail list and folder list and when she selects a mail to view it opens into a reader window, separate of the main KMail window.
Is this doable? I haven't found any settings that seem to allow that on this program, but know it has some hidden features too.
An easy way is to set up filters for the mail. If she doesn't want numerous folders then just create one folder and one filter (name it whatever you want) and in the filter criteria, set a space (" " w/o the quotes) and have all incoming mail go into the new folder. Whatever the last folder was that was checked will be the folder that is opened when kmail starts. In other words, when she gets finished checking her mail, click on the "inbox" folder and that is what kmail will open with. Granted, this method will not prevent the first email from opening when the new folder is clicked on but if enough filters are set to her specifics she can get a pretty good idea what they are. Hope this helps Zach