So one more question. Is there some setting that will allow for offline reading of mail items? Typically most mail clients have something like "download full items" or "download headers only," but I wasn't able to find this in Modest settings and when I tried to open a new email when offline it tried to connect to a network.

I found one other person with this same problem after updating to PR1.2, but I wasn't able to find anyone who had responded to the issue.