Yes, you can. There are at least two ways of selectively downloading mail, that I know of. I'm assuming that you've setup a POP3 account (not IMAP), otherwise you probably wouldn't be asking the question.

The "quick and dirty" way is by using the "Selective mail download" option in the files menu - but in your case, this wouldn't actually be "quick", so I'll ignore that for now.

The "clever" way is to use mail filtering. In "Tools", look for "Mail filtering rules" and then "Create/edit POP3 rule set". Create a rule (ie give it a useful name) and then edit the rule. There are lots of criteria you can filter your messages with, including date. Then you just decide what you want to do with your filtered message - download it, throw it away, leave it on the Yahoo server, whatever.

However you handle this, 40,000 emails is going to take a while, but at least mail filtering prevents the need to download stuff you don't want.

 Hope this helps.

Ok I downloaded Pegasus for the first time ever.

I setup my Yahoo account and that part is fine.

But it started to download ALL 40,000 emails..yes forty thousand.

Can I configure it to only download say the last 7 days worth of emails?

DrPepperOK