I must be missing someting because I don't think Kmail would be braindead. Whenever Kmail gets mail from my pop server it "locks" up - that is it ignores all input and refuses to respond to any input until it is done and then it starts processing input again. I figure an app like Kmail must be smarter than that and should be able to get mail while still responding to input so is there a setting or configuration tips that I can check. Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.