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Yahoo Emails Not Downloading

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Joe Lichtenauer
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Hello,

I am trying to sync a rather large Yahoo mail account to local storage. It seems like everything has successfully synced, besides the Inbox, which keeps attempting to download the same number of emails repeatedly. The inbox is currently displaying ~66K total emails, and Thunderbird keeps cycling through "Downloading message X of ~64K in Inbox". But it keeps getting very close to finishing "downloading" all the ~64K emails, and then restarting the process. Last time, it got up to ~63K of ~64K, and then popped up a message that said "Deleted 64,000 emails from Inbox". I've been watching the INBOX file in the ImapMail folder actively grow in size, but am confused as to why it seems to be stuck in a loop of downloading the 64K emails. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hello, I am trying to sync a rather large Yahoo mail account to local storage. It seems like everything has successfully synced, besides the Inbox, which keeps attempting to download the same number of emails repeatedly. The inbox is currently displaying ~66K total emails, and Thunderbird keeps cycling through "Downloading message X of ~64K in Inbox". But it keeps getting very close to finishing "downloading" all the ~64K emails, and then restarting the process. Last time, it got up to ~63K of ~64K, and then popped up a message that said "Deleted 64,000 emails from Inbox". I've been watching the INBOX file in the ImapMail folder actively grow in size, but am confused as to why it seems to be stuck in a loop of downloading the 64K emails. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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david
david
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Are you wanting to keep them permanently in local storage? If that is the intent, I suggest using POP to download and then copy to Local Folders. IMAP is trying to sync the server and PC and it is having a what may be network issues in completing the sync.

christ1
christ1
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What is your anti-virus software?