The Kontact main window has a list of the different components down the left-hand side. There is a right-click popup menu for that. Please add a menu item "Preferences...", which opens the Kontact preferences window to the relevant section, i.e. if I right-click on KMail icon and then choose the new item "Preferences", it should open the configuration editor and pre-select "Kmail preferences" in the sections on the left of that window. Reproducible: Always