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i want to download message from server from today, old messages I don't want to download, how can I?

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Kumbhar
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I installed thunderbird newly. My mail account is on outlook.com I want to download new messages from today only. I don't want to download old messages as it takes lot of time.

I installed thunderbird newly. My mail account is on outlook.com I want to download new messages from today only. I don't want to download old messages as it takes lot of time.

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Toad-Hall
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If this is a POP mail account: Pop mail accounts only access and dwnload from server Inbox.

So logon to webmail account via a browser. Create a new folder. Move all emails you do not want to download out of Inbox and into the new folder. This will keep all the old emails on server, but as they are not in the Inbox, Thunderbird will not download them.


If this is an IMAP mail account: You can make a setting to choose what messages to download. Right click on mail account name and select 'Settings' or via Menu Bar: Tools > Account Settings or Menu icon > Options > Account Settings

click on 'Synchronisation & Storage' for imap mail account select: 'Synchronise the most recent xx days' click on 'OK'

see info with images at this link;

This will then only download a restricted amount of emails.