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Stop downloading older e-mail
 
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OK I am setting up a second computer with The Bat.
My ISP has a mind of its own, or The Bat isn't set up properly,
but The Bat wants to download every single message from months ago from
each of my e-mail accounts. We are talking 1000's of e-mails.

I let it do its thing, with me manually deleting messages as they arrived, but I'm getting tired of it.
And it's still only up to Jan/Feb of 2025!

How can I tell The Bat to stop downloading the e-mails?
And somehow tell it to just download new e-mails from the past couple of days?
And then download only new e-mails?
 
 
 
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What about creation some archive folder that not added to in the "manage IMAP folders"? Or just give your TB! to work all night long if you using POP3 and don't wanna miss all an old letters in the future?
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AFAIK TB! Don't have such a feature like AquaMail for Android have. Ask a support about adding feature. But I do prefer to have all letters through years with some archive folders by years (TB folders on HDD not it on a server side). Night to download and move them then.
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George Salnik wrote:
What about creation some archive folder that not added to in the "manage IMAP folders"? Or just give your TB! to work all night long if you using POP3 and don't wanna miss all an old letters in the future?
Yes it could be downloaded at night but ....

1. I don't need/want those extra gigs of downloads
2. I don't know how to set it up so ALL the e-mails are delivered to a separate folder

I mentioned I don't need the extra gigs, because my main computer has already downloaded all of these e-mails.

How do I tell The Bat to deliver mail addressed to a specific e-mail address to another 'address/folder'?
 
 
 
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I think I fixed the problem.
I did it in two stages.

First I unplugged the ethernet cable to my computer to prevent messages from being downloaded.

Then I added a Selective Download Filter:
 Sender: does not contain "Ghost"
 Action: Ignore and mark as read

Then I plugged in the ethernet cable to my computer.
This allowed me to fire up The Bat and not have it download any of the 1000's of messages.
I know it worked because I saw it scan more than 4700 messages!

Then I put on my thinking cap and tried to figure out how to just download messages from the last few days.

I created a new filter in each of my accounts:
Add Filter:  'Three Days'
Condition:  Age: is less than 3 days
Action: Move to folder: \Inbox

I also removed the Selective Download Filter.
I probably could have skipped the first stage, but at least by using it I saw there were 4700 more messages
waiting to be downloaded.
 
 
 
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Good to hear that you solved it.. very nice solution!
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