On Friday 17 May 2013 20:17:00 Greg Madden wrote:
> key binding 'ctl+a' used to select all messages in a folder

Thank you for that most useful piece of information!!  By the way, I am using 
KMail 1.9.10 on TDE 3.5.13.2.  And 'ctl+a' works.  

Lisi