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Kontact is the integrated Personal Information Manager of KDE, but can be used with other systems as well.

It supports email, address books, calendars, tasks, news feeds and much more.

The Kontact suite is the powerful PIM solution of KDE that handles your email, agenda, contacts and other 'personal' data together in one place. Kontact delivers innovations to help you manage your communications more easily, organize your work faster and work together more closely, resulting in more productivity and efficiency in digital collaboration.

Components

KDE Kontact supports various groupware servers. When using these servers your workgroup has access to features like shared email folders, group task lists, calendar sharing, central address books and meeting scheduling.

Kontact consists of the Kontact PIM back end and the graphical applications connecting to the back end. Special 'agents' (say a facebook agent) are employed to get new data in and merge it in the existing data set (for example contacts, news). Due to the clean infrastructure new agents are easy to develop.

These programs together form Kontact:

Akregator - Read your favorite feeds
KAddressBook - Manage your contacts
KMail - Mail client
KNotes - Sticky notes for your Desktop
KOrganizer - Calendar and scheduling, Journal
Summary - Summary screen in Kontact
KJots - Your ideas organized in a Notebook

Where to get help

Documentation for Kontact is available here.
The KDE community forum is here.

There is a mailing list at

kdepim-users - for users of the KDE PIM applications (Kontact, KAddressBook, KMail, KOrganizer, ...) subscribe to kdepim-users archive of kdepim-users. A team of developers and users aim to give answers as quickly as possible

and for urgent help, an IRC channel on Libera Chat

for users and developers of Kontact - #kontact

Download

Kontact is available in all major Linux distribution repositories, as tarballs, and soon a Flatpak version will also be available. Ancient versions were compatible with Windows, the Kontact team is looking for help to improve Windows support. For more information look at the Kontact download page.

Installation Instructions

If you need help to install Kontact, look at this tutorial about how to install KDE software.

More Information

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-The Kontact suite is the powerful PIM solution of KDE. It lets you handle email, agenda, contacts and other 'personal' data together in one place by delivering innovations to help you manage your communications more easily, organize your work faster and work together more closely, resulting in more productivity and efficiency in digital collaboration.
+The Kontact suite is the powerful PIM solution of KDE that handles your email, agenda, contacts and other 'personal' data together in one place. Kontact delivers innovations to help you manage your communications more easily, organize your work faster and work together more closely, resulting in more productivity and efficiency in digital collaboration.
-<!--T:41-->
-Documentation for Kontact is [http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdepim/ also available].
-== How to get Kontact == <!--T:42-->
-Since Kontact is written in portable Qt technology, it is available on many different operating systems:
-=== GNU/Linux === <!--T:43-->
-<!--T:45-->
-Kontact is available in all major GNU/Linux distributions. Please use the package manager or software center of your distribution to install it.
-<!--T:46-->
-* [http://packages.ubuntu.com/kontact Ubuntu]
-<!--T:47-->
-* [http://packages.debian.org/stable/kontact Debian]
-<!--T:48-->
-* [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/kdepim Fedora]
-<!--T:49-->
-* [https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/kdepim4 openSUSE]
-<!--T:50-->
-* [http://mageia.madb.org/package/show/name/kontact Mageia]
-=== Windows === <!--T:44-->
-<!--T:51-->
-Maintaining Kontact for Windows is currently sponsered by [https://kolabsys.com Kolab Systems] that provides installers at
-  http://mirror.kolabsys.com/pub/upload/windows/K3-Kontact-Beta-latest.exe
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 == Components == <!--T:5-->
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 * [[Special:myLanguage/Akregator|Akregator]] - Read your favorite feeds
 * [[Special:myLanguage/KAddressBook/index|KAddressBook]] - Manage your contacts
-* [[Special:myLanguage/KJots|KJots]] - Your ideas organised in a Notebook
 * [[Special:myLanguage/KMail|KMail]] - Mail client
-* [[Special:myLanguage/KNode|KNode]] - Your usenet mail reader
 * [[Special:myLanguage/KNotes|KNotes]] - Sticky notes for your Desktop
 * [[Special:myLanguage/KOrganizer|KOrganizer]] - Calendar and scheduling, Journal
-* [[Special:myLanguage/KTimeTracker|KTimeTracker]] - Track how much time you spend on various tasks
 * [[Special:myLanguage/Summary|Summary]] - Summary screen in Kontact
+* [[Special:myLanguage/KJots|KJots]] - Your ideas organized in a Notebook
-== See also == <!--T:7-->
+==Where to get help== <!--T:9-->
-<!--T:8-->
+<!--T:41-->
-* [[Special:myLanguage/Kontact/SMS|Kontact SMS]]
+Documentation for Kontact is [https://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdepim/kontact/index.html available here].<br />
-:  How to send SMS using Kontact
+The KDE community forum is [https://forum.kde.org/ here.]
-* [[Special:myLanguage/Kontact_Touch|Kontact Touch]]
-:  Port to touch screen devices (like mobile handsets or tablets) (currently maemo/Windows Mobile/MeeGo)
-== Using Kontact with MyKolab.com  ==
-[https://kolab.org Kolab.org] is a Free Software Groupware solution closely connected to KDE. The following page describes how to set up a [https://mykolab.com MyKolab] account with Kontact, but it works with any other Kolab Server as well.
-* [[Special:myLanguage/Working_with_MyKolab|Setting up your MyKolab.com account]]
-== Using Kontact with GMail and Google Data == <!--T:37-->
-<!--T:38-->
-* [[Special:myLanguage/Working_with_GMail|Working with GMail]] - Read your GMail in KMail
-* [[Special:myLanguage/Working_with_Google_Calendar|Working with Google Calendar]] - Integrate Google Calendar with KOrganizer.
-<!--T:39-->
-* [[Special:myLanguage/Working_with_Google_Contacts|Working with Google Contacts]] - Allow Google Contacts to synchronize with Kontact
-==Where to get help== <!--T:9-->
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-* '''kdepim-users''' - for users of the KDE PIM applications (Kontact, KAddressBook, KMail, KOrganizer, KNode, ...) [https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users subscribe to kdepim-users] [http://lists.kde.org/?l=kdepim-users&r=1&w=2 archive of kdepim-users]. A team of developers and users aim to give answers as quickly as possible
+* '''kdepim-users''' - for users of the KDE PIM applications (Kontact, KAddressBook, KMail, KOrganizer, ...) [https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users subscribe to kdepim-users] [http://lists.kde.org/?l=kdepim-users&r=1&w=2 archive of kdepim-users]. A team of developers and users aim to give answers as quickly as possible
 <!--T:12-->
-and for urgent help, an IRC channel on Freenode
+and for urgent help, an IRC channel on Libera Chat
 <!--T:13-->
 *for users and developers of Kontact - #kontact
-===Akonadi and KAddressBook=== <!--T:33-->
+<!--T:57-->
-If you have problems concerning '''Akonadi''' and the new '''KAddressBook''', there are pages dedicated to these issues
+{{KontactInstall|Kontact}}
-*[[Special:myLanguage/Akonadi|Akonadi]]
-*[[Special:myLanguage/KAddressBook/index|KAddressBook]]
-*[[Special:myLanguage/Akonadi_and_AddressBook|Akonadi and your AddressBook]]
-== FAQ, Hints and Tips  == <!--T:14-->
-=== Migrating your setup to a new distro  === <!--T:15-->
-<!--T:16-->
-In KMail, right click on your Inbox and choose Properties. Go the Maintenance Tab. Have a look at the Location. It has either .kde4 or .kde in the path.
-<!--T:17-->
-Substitute the appropriate path below.
-<!--T:18-->
-You need the following config files:</translate>
-*.kde4/share/config/emaildefaults
-*.kde4/share/config/emailidentities
-*.kde4/share/config/kmail.eventsrc
-*.kde4/share/config/kmailrc
-*.kde4/share/config/kaddressbookrc
-*.kde4/share/config/kresources/contact
-*.kde4/share/config/korgacrc
-*.kde4/share/config/korganizerrc
-*.kde4/share/config/knotesrc
-*.kde4/share/config/mailtransports
-<translate><!--T:20-->
-And the following directories:</translate>
-*.kde4/share/apps/kmail
-*.kde4/share/apps/kabc
-*.kde4/share/apps/korganizer
-*.kde4/share/apps/knotes
-<translate><!--T:22-->
-If you use Akregator within Kontact, you will also need:</translate>
-*.kde4/share/config/akregator.eventsrc
-*.kde4/share/config/akregatorrc
-<translate><!--T:24-->
-And the whole .kde4/share/apps/akregator directory.
-<!--T:25-->
-Of course the simplest way is just to keep your whole home directory.
-<!--T:26-->
-Just a word of warning. If the directory naming is different between Desktops or between the two versions of your distro, this will not work as there are references to the directories within the config files. This means that if the files were in a .kde directory, you cannot just put them in a .kde4 directory without editing the references within the config files.
-=== Hiding the Kontact Sidebar === <!--T:27-->
-<!--T:28-->
-On small screens, you may wish to reclaim the space used by the Kontact sidebar. You can replace it with an (editable) toolbar:
-<!--T:29-->
-#<menuchoice>Settings->Toolbars Shown->Navigator [x]</menuchoice>
-#Drag the left panel closed using the splitter between it and the main panel, job done. Don't forget to enable Navigator in every component.
-=== Enabling SOCKS support in KMail and KNode === <!--T:30-->
-<!--T:31-->
-Unlike KDE 3, KDE 4 does not have built-in SOCKS support yet. However, it is still possible and relatively simple to make KMail and KNode use a SOCKS proxy, by using [http://proxychains.sf.net proxychains] or other similar tools like [http://tsocks.sourceforge.net/ tsocks] or  [http://www.inet.no/dante/doc/socksify.1.html socksify]. Assuming that proxychains is correctly installed and configured, all you need to do is to open a terminal (e.g. Konsole) and type:
-{{Input|1=proxychains kdeinit4}}
-<!--T:36-->
-You don't even need to restart KMail/KNode! (You need to type the above command every time you start a new KDE session though).
-=== Integrate the KDE-Telepathy VoIP module into Kontact / KAddressBook ===
-see the [http://userbase.kde.org/Telepathy#6._Integrate_the_KDE-Telepathy_VoIP_module_into_KAddressBook KDE-Telepathy] page.
+== More Information == <!--T:58-->
+<!--T:59-->
+* [https://kontact.kde.org/ Kontact website]
+* [https://docs.kde.org/index.php?language=en&package=pim All the manuals for KDE PIM]
 <!--T:32-->
 [[Category:Office]]
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