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After forced migration from Cox email server to Yahoo, TB insists on downloading all messages from last 8 years, instead of just new messages

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Device: Desktop computer - Win 7 Pro Email client: Thunderbird Version 102.13 Server: POP settings

I am a Cox email user and was recently migrated to Yahoo. After I input the correct server settings on the Thunderbird app,each time I click on the Get Message button, It starts downloading all (100K+) the email messages in my Yahoo inbox, including the ones that were already downloaded on my computer from the Cox server. Are there certain settings in Thunderbird that will stop this issue and just let me download new messages? TIA -Craig

Device: Desktop computer - Win 7 Pro Email client: Thunderbird Version 102.13 Server: POP settings I am a Cox email user and was recently migrated to Yahoo. After I input the correct server settings on the Thunderbird app,each time I click on the Get Message button, It starts downloading all (100K+) the email messages in my Yahoo inbox, including the ones that were already downloaded on my computer from the Cox server. Are there certain settings in Thunderbird that will stop this issue and just let me download new messages? TIA -Craig

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Matt
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That is the price you pay for using POP mail and not removing your mail from the server when you download it.

You now have a new server (if you followed the instructions from Cox a whole new account in Thunderbird) and the "download state" of your emails on the old server is not transferable to the new one. You will just have to let the process complete as I am not aware of any limiting setting on the Yahoo site. Google offer a limiting setting for their POP mail accounts, but I am not aware of one for Yahoo.You might want to ask Yahoo to be sure.

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Thank you for your response. I was on the phone with Yahoo tech support for almost 6 hours over 2 days only for a supervisor to finally admit that there is nothing yahoo can do from their end.

So my next question is, if I have to let the process complete, as you mentioned, is there a way for me to set up a dummy folder on my computer for all of the old emails to download into? The idea is that once the process is completed, I can move the newest emails to my real inbox folder, and delete the dummy folder with the old emails completely.

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Continued here https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1450696