Windows Mail

[arkredneck]

Windows Vista, Windows Mail (not Live Mail)

Can't read current mail.  Program starts downloading from message 1 of 19,000.  This just started. Been working fine for years. Is there something in options or accounts that can correct this?
                                                         Joe

[Shane]

Are you able to log into your email through a web browser? That way you can log into it and see if there really is that many messages.

Shane

[arkredneck]

Yes, I logged in through Yahoo and it shows the same as Windows mail. 

Joe

[Shane]

Then it isnt your system or Windows mail, looks like you got hit with a ton of email, I am betting it is all spam.

You may want to try cleaning some of it up on yahoos side so that your email client doesnt have to try and download all those messages.

Shane

[arkredneck]

The e-mails are dated 2014.  Some of them I have already saved.  Is there some way to "delete all" at the server?  Before I can delete them, I have to receive them and that will take an inordinate amount of time.

Joe

[Shane]

With yahoo mail i am not sure.

If you have pop3 access to your yahoo account then I do have an old tool i wrote like 14 years go that was a pop3 email deleter that logged into the account and deleted all the emails you told it to. It still works i think and I could give you a copy of it.

Otherwise another way is if you have imap access to your yahoo account. If you do you could user thunderbird and setup imap access to it, then have it download the message headers only instead of the whole message, this will make it a lot faster on grabbing them all, then you can do a select all and delete them that way as well.

Shane