Prevent Windows Live Mail to download all messages from IMAP

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Published on 2011-01-23T08:21:23Z Indexed on 2011/03/04 7:27 UTC
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Hello,

Recently I'm trying the Window Live Mail client. Simple and beautiful.

I have set up an IMAP account, and I'm used that a client only downloads headers.

However Windows Live Mail automatically creates a list of tasks to download all messages from all directories when you are closing the client. Is it possible to avoid this?

It's a good and a bad thing. You can work offline and you have a backup, but it takes extremely long to perform, in fact I have about hundred of thousand of emails. This task can take a whole day to perform.

After looking in the settings I don't see anything special, maybe you have an idea?

Thank you
Mike

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