What operating system? (reason I ask is Vista and OL2003 have some known
issues regarding timeouts.)

"HMcG" wrote in message
...
Outlook 2003

"neo [mvp outlook]" wrote:

What version of Microsoft Outlook are you using?

What operating system are you using?

Other than that, does the ISP offer a web browser access to e-mail? This
might be one way to remove the items you don't want before trying to
acquire
them via POP3/IMAP.

"HMcG" wrote in message
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I am starting to re-use an old e-mail address. I believe the problem is
that
there are a number of old messages that have been sitting there from
before.
It is too large to download them all at once and the server keeps
timing
out,
I even left it running all night, hoping that would solve the issue, I
also
have tried changing the headers only, size of files etc. I just cannot
seem
to get rid of the old ones and start fresh with the new... working
address
is
problem address is
.
What should I do?