using kontact and IMAP

[Derek Broughton]

Bas Roufs wrote:

> Dear everybody
> 
>> If your IMAP folder is remote, I'd say that isn't even possible.  If
>> you're running your own IMAP server,
> 
> Also I am experimenting now with Kontact with IMAP - via GMAIL. But it
> is not yet clear to me to which extend IMAP does really DOWNLOAD
> e-mails, so that I can prepare them off-line: by example with a laptop
> without wired or wireless internet connection.

Essentially when you use IMAP _nothing_ is downloaded until you ask for it,
so don't expect to be able to use it offline.

> On the other hand, it 
> would not be very practical for me to automatically download every
> (huge) e-mail folder. That's why, my question is: it is possible to
> determine from case to case whether I want to download 1 or more
> e-mails or not?

Possible, yes; practical ?  I'm not sure.
-- 
derek