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)? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org