No, too late, it already downloaded them all while I was writing the previous post about how slow it would be! So NOW the question is, is there a way to search by date? It's not obvious, but maybe it is just very clever, or a regexp or something.

Thanks Angiesdom! - worked great - the one thing I hadn't tried ie set it up by not setting anything up! (It puts itself on port 993 with "auto - plaintext" authentication.)

Slight problem is that it starts to download several thousand emails (which have already been downloaded into Thunderbird). Is there a way to stop it from doing that? I guess I can let it run and then delete them all, but that is slow.

How do I set up Opera for a Yahoo POP3 account? This is a basic question, I'm sorry if I should have found it in the Help etc but I couldn't.

I've tried importing the settings from Thunderbird but they do not work in or out in Opera. I've looked up the settings on Yahoo, but they refer to things like "SSL" which is not obviously an option for Opera. I cannot make it work, it's very frustrating!

Many thanks

Andrew