When setting up New email account can i download only x months of emails only?
Hi, I have 4 email accounts that i have had over 5 years and have a combined 20,000 plus emails.
I do not want to download all the emails when creating a new email account, and i do not want to delete them off the server as i would like to keep a record of them all if i need something in the future.
Please let me know the best way to deal with this. Ideally I would like to download just the emails for this year when creating my new email account in Thunderbird
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If you create a POP mail account: Pop will download whatever is in the server Inbox. So before creating the account, logon to webmail via a browser and move all those older emails out of the Inbox into another suitable folder, then Thunderbird will not download those moved emails and they will be stored on server.
If you create an IMAP mail account: You could choose to put older emails in a specific folder or Archive them which you do not subscribe to see. So emails are still on server, but you are not seeing that folder in Thunderbird. OR if you synchronise subscribed folders, you could choose to download only the recent xx days of emails. Note once these are downloaded, they remain until deleted, they are not replaced with most recent. But it should stop downloading loads of older emails. See info:
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الحل المُختار
If you create a POP mail account: Pop will download whatever is in the server Inbox. So before creating the account, logon to webmail via a browser and move all those older emails out of the Inbox into another suitable folder, then Thunderbird will not download those moved emails and they will be stored on server.
If you create an IMAP mail account: You could choose to put older emails in a specific folder or Archive them which you do not subscribe to see. So emails are still on server, but you are not seeing that folder in Thunderbird. OR if you synchronise subscribed folders, you could choose to download only the recent xx days of emails. Note once these are downloaded, they remain until deleted, they are not replaced with most recent. But it should stop downloading loads of older emails. See info: