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# 4.3. Appearance Tab

## 4.3.1. Fonts

This section allows you to change the type, size and character set of the display fonts.

## 4.3.2. Colors

This section allows you to change the color of the text. Recycle colors on deep quoting means that even text that's quoted more than three times will appear in color.

## 4.3.3. Layout

This section lets you toggle the long folder list on and off. The long folder list lists folders all the way down the left side of the KMail window, which lets you see more folders than in the default view, but it takes away some space for viewing the text of the messages. With Display message sizes selected there will be another column in the Header pane that shows the messages' size in bytes. Thread list of message headers will put all the messages in a kind of tree, so the replies to a message are next to that message.

Prefer plain text to HTML rendering will try to show even HTML mails as plain text. It's a good idea to prefer plain text, as security problems with HTML might show up some day.

## 4.3.4. Profiles

This section offers several default settings for colors and font sizes.

## 4.3.5. Addressbook

This section allows you to choose between several address books, whereas Traditional KMail is a very simple one and Abbrowser is an advanced one. Please note the comments under the selection that tell you the packages you need to use the advanced variants. The address books' database is independent, i.e. you will not see addresses in the Abbrowser if you only entered them in the Traditional KMail address book.

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