Hi,
I´d like to use kmail as a stand alone program on gnome in debian 6.0. I installed kmail with all its dependent libraries in debian´s synaptic. I got kmail successfuly running with almost all colours configured in Settings > Configure Kmail > Appearence > Colors. However for the background color (I prefer black) I could not find a way to configure. Kmail takes the background color from kde´s "system settings", which are not installed (yet). Do I have to install whole kde-stuff, to get kmail´s background black or is there a shorter way possible. btw: On the german Ubuntu-kmail-wiki I red, that kmail is running with kde or stand alone. Thanks for help

Try executing "kcmshell4 colors" to access the System Settings Color settings.

KMail needs to support color schemes. When you choose a color scheme with a dark background like Obsidian Coast, some display elements, e.g. quotations, are unreadable, and you have to adjust each one by hand.

I gather you do restart KMail after changing the colour scheme?