How to download only recent mails in Thunderbird?

Question

I have an account at Hotmail and I have lots of mails there. (more than 10000) I don't want Thunderbird to download them all, also because I have really slow connection.

Is there a way to make Thunderbird download only mails more recent than, for example, 10days ago?

Answer 1

In the "Account Settings", there's a setting in "Synchronization and Storage" to only synchronize the newest mail by days, weeks, months,... This might be what you are looking for.