OK, I unplug from the 'net and this is what happens
I only seem to have the headers, not the bodies - message is at top of
message reading pane is
"This item cannot be displayed in the Reading Pane. Open the item to read
its contents"
I double click the message and I get this dialogue message box
"This message has not been fully downloaded from the server. Would you
like to mark it for download" Yes / No
Open your Send/Receive group (Alt-Ctrl-S, select the group, click Change),
select your IMAP account and make sure the option to download the entire
body of the message is checked and not just "Download headers".
I would have thought that the default for IMAP accounts is that ,messages
are NOT held locally. Is not that the main difference between IMAP & POP,
the former stores your mail until you delete it, whilst the latter holds
your mail for you pick it up, after which its gone - just like a Post
Office Mail Box, which I guess is why they called it POP.
Outlook uses a local PST folder cache to hold IMAP messages that get
downloaded, somewhat like it keeps a local cache for an Exchange account.
If you have Outlook download the messages in the folders then they should be
available offline.
