Eli Wapniarski wrote:
There used to be an option in KMail to download offline,
Oh!!!.. I should mention... if akonadi is running and you are on a network, your mail will continue to be synced up with your client regardless if kmail is running or not.
Thanks for the reassurance.
But I'm still slightly puzzled by the fact that if I run dovecot/imap on a remote host then - sometimes at least - as I click on each email in KMail I get the dreaded message "Retrieving Folder Contents" and have to wait for 20 seconds or more (sometimes for ever) before I can read the email. This never happens with a local imap server.
I must admit this seems much better now than it used to be, so I shall start trying a remove server again; though the "replication" option sounds rather attractive.