If you can access the email through IMAP, you _might_ be able to=20 download the email into local folders and delete it from the server. As=20 you will be initiating the process you can select only as many messages=20 as you will successfully download (regardless of the source of error)=20 and then when you confirm they are downloaded, delete only the selected=20 messages. Your client _should_ give you the option of copying between=20 accounts as well (incase you are trying to consolidate accounts) Although you want to save it to MailDir format, Outlook can achieve=20 this so I would expect all clients to be capable of it. On 2012-03-22 11:40, PICdude wrote: > Quoting Sergey Dryga : > >> PICdude narwani.org> writes: >> >>> I clearly remember stopping kmail during its download from the same >>> hosts and when restarted later it would continue from where it left >>> off. It did delete the downloaded ones off the server in the=20 >>> interim. >>> The Linux option is looking better and better now. >>> >> KMail has an option to leave messages on the server, it's in account >> options IIRC. > > Most do have this option, but I was referring to kmail deleting each > message as it went along, vs. waiting to download the full set, then > deleting the full set. The latter is what's causing me problems. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .