Painfully slow IMAP synchronisation.
It's been a while since I've needed to do a reinstall of Windows - but historically, it was never an issue to re-download all of the synced folders via IMAP for my Blueyonder accounts... Comparable to Hotmail & the like.
However, for reasons that are beyond me, even giving it in excess of 24 hours, there's vast numbers missing - where there might be the odd very recent one... ...where the extreme is, other than a few received since Monday, having none after May 2010 for a secondary email address/ & April 2013 in the inbox (not subfolders) of my primary one.
Now I thought it 'might' be an issue with Outlook 2024 as I updated at the time - but rolling back to 2019 & it made no odds - so switched back to 2024...
...& there was some mention in an old post that the password might need updating - so did that & it's made no odds.
Likewise, all of the emails exist on the server... ...there's no speed issues with anything else... ...& Outlook can send/receive test messages...
...so, since additional old emails do spasmodically arrive, it would appear that there's something weird going on.
So how do I get these to download before I die of old age?