KMail

[Kevin Kofler]

Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> On Saturday 10 October 2015 15:39:28 Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> There used to be an option in KMail to download offline,
>> which I take to mean while KMail is not running,
>> but I don't see this now.
>> I'm running KMail under Fedora-23beta/KDE .
>> 
>> Also, I'm not really clear what KMail downloads
>> from an IMAP server to a laptop?
>> Is it just the headers, until the email is clicked to read?
>> Or does it download all the recent email when KMail starts
>> (or even earlier, if offline downloading is allowed)?
> 
> It means that when you are onlne it will store a copy on your storage just
> in case you need to read the mail if you should not be connected to a
> network.

Yes. To be clear, the headers are ALWAYS downloaded, whether you enable 
offline downloading or not. Otherwise, how would KMail display the message 
list? The full messages are downloaded if and only if "download offline" is 
enabled.

        Kevin Kofler