Thanks for your comment. I'm closing the bug as 1) 'offline' means: 'don't synchronize with IMAP, POP, etc', 2) Loading of Images can be turned off and on in the preferences. I can't see this as a bug and if we were to change the behaviour completely, this should be discussed upstream.
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