# Credits and License

&kmail;: Copyright the &kmail; developers, 1997-2021

&underGPL; &underFDL;

## Program Development Team

These are the people who deserve the most credit for initially creating &kmail; and raising it from its birth in 1997 through its early childhood ca. 2005. They may be regarded as the parents of &kmail;. A handful of them are still contributing code and bug fixes to the project today.

- Laurent Montel (montel at kde org): Maintainer

- Ingo Klöcker (kloecker at kde org): Former maintainer, still active

- Thomas McGuire (mcguire at kde org): Former maintainer

- Don Sanders (sanders at kde org): Former co-maintainer

- Stefan Taferner (taferner at kde org): Original author

- Michael Häckel (haeckel at kde org): Former maintainer

- Till Adam (till at adam-lilienthal de): Former core developer

- Volker Krause (vkrause at adam-lilienthal de): Core developer

- Carsten Burghardt (burghardt at kde org): Former core developer

- Marc Mutz (mutz at kde org): Former core developer

- Daniel Naber (daniel naber at t-online de): Documentation

- Zack Rusin (zack at kde org): Former core developer

- Toyohiro Asukai (toyohiro at ksmplus com): Support for the Japanese language

- Waldo Bastian (bastian at kde org): Numerous technical corrections

- Ryan Breen (ryan at ryanbreen com): System tray notification

- Steven Brown (swbrown at ucsd edu): Patch for PGP

- Matthias Kalle Dalheimer (kalle at kde org): Crypto support

- Matt Douhan (matt at fruitsalad org): Improved internal program documentation

- Cristi Dumitrescu (cristid at chip ro)

- David Faure (faure at kde org): Major contributor, still active

- Philippe Fremy (pfremy at chez com)

- Kurt Granroth (granroth at kde org): Added maildir support

- Andreas Gungl (a gungl at gmx de): PGP 6 support and further enhancements of the encryption support

- Steffen Hansen (hansen at kde org)

- Igor Janssen (rm at linux ru net)

- Matt Johnston (matt at caifex org)

- Christer Kaivo-oja (whizkid at telia com)

- Lars Knoll (knoll at kde org): Original encryption support, PGP 2 and PGP 5 support

- J. Nick Koston (bdraco at darkorb net): GnuPG support

- Stephan Kulow (coolo at kde org): Major contributor

- Guillaume Laurent (glaurent at telegraph-road org)

- Sam Magnuson (sam at trolltech com)

- Matt Newell (newellm at proaxis com)

- Denis Perchine (dyp at perchine com)

- Samuel Penn (sam at bifrost demon co uk)

- Carsten Pfeiffer (pfeiffer at kde org): Various and sundry bug fixes

- Sven Radej (radej at kde org): Improved asynchronous processes

- Mark Roberts (mark at taurine demon co uk)

- Wolfgang Rohdewald (wrohdewald at dplanet ch)

- Espen Sand (espen at kde org): Enhanced configuration dialogs

- Aaron J. Seigo (aseigo at olympusproject org): Technical fixes; notes/calendar integration

- George Staikos (staikos at kde org): Improve efficiency and consistency of code

- Szymon Stefanek (pragma at kvirc net): New message list and new folder tree

- Jason Stephenson (panda at mis net)

- Jacek Stolarczyk (jacek at mer chemia polsl gliwice pl)

- Roberto S. Teixeira (maragato at kde org)

- Bo Thorsen (bo at sonofthor dk): Many valuable contributions

- Ronen Tzur (rtzur at shani net)

- Mario Weilguni (mweilguni at sime com)

- Wynn Wilkes (wynnw at calderasystems com)

- Robert D. Williams (rwilliams at kde org)

- Markus Wübben (markus wuebben at kde org): Killed lots of bugs

- Karl-Heinz Zimmer (khz at kde org): Major contributor

## Credits -- The Early Days

These are the people who helped build the program when it was still quite young. Think of them as the friendly next door neighbors who taught &kmail; important lessons about life, and cared for the child when he wandered away from his parents' house.

- Sam Abed (earlgreykde at pop netspace net au): Smiley ==> emoticon processing

- Joern Ahrens (joern ahrens at kdemail net): Improve 'Mark Message as' popup menu

- Tom Albers (toma at kde org): Bugzilla maintenance

- Jaime Torres Amate (jtamate at gmail com): Execution speed improvements

- Albert Cervera Areny (albertca at hotpop com): Optionally compress attachments

- Jonathan Armond (jon armond at gmail com)

- Patrick Audley (unknown): Added spam status to fancy headers

- Benjamin Azan (b azan at free fr): Implemented todo status handling

- Davide Bettio (davide bettio at kdemail net): Bug fixes, code cleanup

- Pradeepto Bhattacharya (pradeepto at kde org): LDAP support, maintenance

- Bruno Bigras (bigras bruno at gmail com)

- Bertjan Broeksema (broeksema at kde org): Major contributor to Akonadi

- David Bryant (davidbryant at gvtc com): Documentation, still active

- Albert Astals Cid (aacid at kde org): Substantial contributor, still active

- Frederick Emmott (fred87 at users sf net): Antivirus support

- Christophe Giboudeaux (christophe at krop fr): Major contributor, still active

- Sandro Giessl (sgiessl at gmail com): Fixed widget styles

- Olivier Goffart (ogoffart at kde org): Bug fixes

- Severin Greimel (greimel-kde at fs-pw uni-muenchen de): Several patches

- Shaheed Haque (shaheedhaque at gmail com): Bug fixes

- Ingo Heeskens (ingo at fivemile org): Enable external reference loading for a whole folder

- Kurt Hindenburg (kurt hindenburg at gmail com): Delete an entire thread

- Heiko Hund (heiko at ist eigentlich net): POP filters

- Torsten Kasch (tk at genetik uni-bielefeld de): Patch Solaris crash

- Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper (vr at movingparts net): Choice of fonts for new/unread/important messages

- Martijn Klingens (klingens at kde org): Fix Quick Search keyboard navigation

- Christoph Klünter (chris at inferno nadir org): Fix drag and drop from address book to composer

- Martin Koller (kollix at aon at): Substantial contributor

- Tobias König (tokoe at kde org): Major contributor

- Nikolai Kosjar (nikolai kosjar at qt io)

- Francois Kritzinger (unknown): Improve configuration dialog

- Danny Kukawka (danny kukawka at bisect de): Improved message importing

- Roger Larsson (roger larsson at norran net): Add details to status bar message

- Michael Leupold (lemma at confuego org)

- Thiago Macieira (thiago at kde org)

- Andras Mantia (amantia at kde org)

- Jonathan Marten (jjm at keelhaul me uk)

- Sergio Luis Martins (iamsergio at gmail com)

- Jeffrey McGee (jeffreym at cs tamu edu): Patch for window resizing problem

- Thomas Moenicke (tm at php-qt org)

- Dirk Müller (mueller at kde org): Optimize qt-cast; fix QUrl()

- Torgny Nyblom (nyblom at kde org): Substantial contributor

- OpenUsability (contact at openusability org): Usability tests and improvements

- Mario Teijeiro Otero (emeteo at escomposlinux org)

- Kevin Ottens (ervin at kde org)

- Simon Perreault (nomis80 at nomis80 org): Patch composer configuration

- Jakob Petsovits (jpetso at gmx at)

- Romain Pokrzywka (romain at kdab net)

- Bernhard Reiter (bernhard at intevation de): Ägypten and Kroupware project management

- Darío Andrés Rodríguez (andresbajotierra at gmail com)

- Edwin Schepers (yez at familieschepers nl): Improved &HTML; support

- Jakob Schröter (cvsci at camaya net): X-Face support

- Cornelius Schumacher (schumacher at kde org): Major contributor

- Jan Simonson (jan at simonson pp se): Beta testing of PGP 6 support

- Paul Sprakes (kdecvs at sprakes co uk): Bug fixes, cleaned up context menus

- Jarosław Staniek (staniek at kde org): Port to MS Windows®

- Will Stephenson (wstephenson at kde org): IM status indicator

- Hasso Tepper (hasso at kde org): Improve layout of recipients editor

- Frank Thieme (frank at fthieme net): Bug fixes

- Patrick S. Vogt (patrick vogt at unibas ch): Timestamp for 'Transmission completed' status messages

- Jan-Oliver Wagner (jan at intevation de): Ägypten and Kroupware project management

- Wolfgang Westphal (wolfgang westphal at gmx de): Multiple encryption keys per address

- Allen Winter (winter at kde org): Major contributor, still active

- Urs Wolfer (uwolfer at kde org): Improved icon/image processing

- Thorsten Zachmann (t zachmann at zagge de): POP filters

- Thomas Zander (zander at kde org): Fixed many &IMAP; bugs

## Documentation

Update for &kmail; 5.14.2 by &David.Bryant; &David.Bryant.mail;.

Update for &kmail; 4.11 by &Laurent.Montel; &Laurent.Montel.mail; and &Scarlett.Clark; &Scarlett.Clark.mail;.

Update for &kmail; 1.7 by &Ingo.Kloecker; &Ingo.Kloecker.mail; and &Marc.Mutz; &Marc.Mutz.mail;. Anti-Spam Wizard chapter by &Andreas.Gungl; &Andreas.Gungl.mail;. Section about filter log by &Andreas.Gungl; &Andreas.Gungl.mail; and &Brad.Hards; &Brad.Hards.mail;. Additional changes by &Daniel.Naber; &Daniel.Naber.mail;.

Update for &kmail; 1.2 to 1.5 by &Daniel.Naber; &Daniel.Naber.mail;, OpenPGP chapter by &Andreas.Gungl; &Andreas.Gungl.mail; and &Ingo.Kloecker; &Ingo.Kloecker.mail;, message filter chapter by &Marc.Mutz; &Marc.Mutz.mail;, and download filter chapter by &Thorsten.Zachmann; &Thorsten.Zachmann.mail;. Other parts have been contributed by various &kmail; developers.

&kmail; 1.0 documentation by &David.Rugge; &David.Rugge.mail;. Original documentation by &Bernd.Johannes.Wuebben; &Bernd.Johannes.Wuebben.mail;, Robert Williams rwilliams@kde.org (Editor).

Thanks to Michael Elkins me@cs.hmc.edu for his excellent description of the different &UNIX; mail formats in the Mutt documentation.

Thanks to the following people for providing directions on using other email client mailboxes with &kmail;:

- Nik Gaffney nik@f0.am (Mailsmith)

- David McMillen mcmillen@math.bu.edu and Mendel Mobach mendel@mobach.nl (&Netscape; mail)

- Ed Shapard shapard@bigfoot.com (Pegasus Mail)

- Ray Muir rjmuir@ibm.net (Forte Agent)