I log in to my mail and it says I have almost 8,000 emails but it times
out before displaying any of them. I can look at my send box - empty,
or my trash box - also empty but I can't see any of the emails in my
inbox. A few months ago I didn't even know I had an email account and
sort of stum
You may have to manipulate the store on the IMAP server itself.
Safest approach is to have the administrator of that system archive
those files and make them available to you from an independent
location or on removable media.
The format of these files will vary depending on the mail delivery
mec