Not to burden you with yet another distro, oh why not - Kanotix is a kde based knoppix derivative that comes with klik, an application that lets you download and run applications whilst running from live CD. I see that bincIMAP is one that you can try.

http://kanotix.com/info/index.php
http://klik.atekon.de/details.php?se...ckage=bincimap

Have fun.