Hi,

AFAIK, if you have an IMAP account, akonadi will not keep your mails on your 
local system, only header information for use in the mail list in the client, 
unless you check "download all messages for offline use" in the settings.

Kindly,
Anders

torsdag den 6. september 2018 23.48.02 CEST skrev Charlie:
> can there be a feature added to kmail/kontact to automatically delete emails
> from your computer after they're downloaded from an email server?
> thunderbird does this flawlessly. shouldn't kmail be just as good as that?
> 
> Charlie Luna
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