HTML status bar in KMail message pane

[Peter Humphrey]

On Sunday, 29 July 2018 14:46:27 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Today my Gentoo system was upgraded to the latest kde-apps 18.04.3,
> including KMail.
> 
> There used to be an option to hide the HTML status bar in the message
> pane, but I can't find it now. Has it moved, or been removed?

Moreover, my setting "Allow messages to load external references from the 
Internet" now has no effect: I have to "load the external references for 
this message by clicking here" on every HTML message.

Are useful facilities being withdrawn?

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Gentoo stable
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources 4.14.52
QT 5.9.6, KDE frameworks 5.46.0, KDE plasma 5.12.5
KMail 18.04.3, akonadi 18.04.3
x11-drivers/xf86-video-amdgpu 18.0.1, dev-libs/amdgpu-pro-opencl 
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