Email Download Problems Windows Vista Mail

[VistaVista]

I'm having difficulty downloading my emails from one of my servers. So far
I've only been able to download 1342 of 2040 emails which so far have all
been spam. It seems that once I've lost a connection to the server or my
internet connection loses a connection it stops downloading and a message
pops up: Your POP3 server has not responded in 300 seconds. Would you like to
wait another 300 seconds for the server to respond? I click on "wait" but it
has never resumed despite repeatedly clicking on it for the past several
days.

How am I going to be able to retrieve my emails through all of this spam? I
also don't have the greatest connection here, either... high isn't available
here. If I could at least resume (wait?) the download that would help. Does
that "wait" button ever work? Perhaps I need another email program? Would I
have better luck reverting back to an older Outlook Express email program?

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I'm having difficulty downloading my emails from one of my servers. So
far
I've only been able to download 1342 of 2040 emails which so far have all
been spam. It seems that once I've lost a connection to the server or my
internet connection loses a connection it stops downloading and a message
pops up: Your POP3 server has not responded in 300 seconds. Would you like
to
wait another 300 seconds for the server to respond? I click on "wait" but
it
has never resumed despite repeatedly clicking on it for the past several
days.

How am I going to be able to retrieve my emails through all of this spam?
I
also don't have the greatest connection here, either... high isn't
available
here. If I could at least resume (wait?) the download that would help.
Does
that "wait" button ever work? Perhaps I need another email program? Would
I
have better luck reverting back to an older Outlook Express email program?

Try logging into the webmail interface, and cleaning up the spam from there
first.

It may also be that there is a corrupt message that is preventing the
download from concluding, and that will be a problem no matter what client
you use.

Also, you may be able to create on the server an alternate folder, and move
many of the messages out of the inbox to that folder. The POP client will
only download from the inbox. By default, it will then delete the messages
from the server's inbox folder.

HTH
-pk