Kube email Making Connections

Other Email Options

You can share a received message with others. For now, "share" just means "forward." Down the road, you may be able to click Share to place a message on social media, other messaging services, and the like.

Also note that sending a "secret copy" to a recipient in this window is just a blind carbon copy (bcc); the recipient's name and address won't appear in other recipients' mailboxes. You can, of course, send them an encrypted message with their public key.

In the Conversations message list, you can also delete emails, mark them as Important (click the star), and change the Read/Unread flag (click the envelope). You cannot yet create folders or other organizing tools for your mail, but these triage tools make a good start in helping you to flag priorities.

Managing People

To add a new contact , click People and then New Contact. There is nothing odd here (Figure 2): name, photo, company, and job title. Click Add Email to add their email address, and you're done. At this time, you can't create multiple address books in the app.

Figure 2: Use the New Contact page to augment your address book.

If you can connect to an online address book via CardDAV, this address book should be listed in the People window.

Managing Calendar in Kube

Kube's calendar got some attention in the 0.8.0 release. It will import CalDAV data from other calendar apps (like Google Calendar) and display them (Figure 3). But in the newer version, you can add your own events with a simple entry box. Enter the date, start and end times and a description. You can even invite people in the event!

Figure 3: The Calendar view is one of the newest additions to Kube.

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