<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000099"> Timothy Murphy wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:ftqi09$15k$1@ger.gmane.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I keep my email on my server, and read it using dovecot/imap on my laptop . </pre> </blockquote> I have a similar set up - while there are many nice things about kmail - the problems it had eventually pushed me over (after many years) to thunderbird - and I have to say - I am very glad I did. This may not work for you, but it is a robust solution and dovecot is solid in my view. All my mail problems were due to kmail. Thunderbird is certainly not perfect but it is superior and a lot more robust than kmail ever was. I did have to install enigmail and lightning (for encryption and calndering). Transferring address books was straightforward as well. g </body> </html>