Downloading emails from POP server?

Hi,
So I have configured my yahoo plus email account via POP with my Mac Mail and all settings seem correct with no errors. It will then start downloading my emails off the server and into my Mail.
The problem is when it reaches 1326 messages inbox, it will simply stop downloading them leaving 12325 messages on the server un-downloaded.
Then when it tries to download these messages in the 'Mail Activity' it will display 'Incoming Messages: 12325' with a fully downloaded bar which will flash up the disappear without any action being performed.
If I click on 'Get Account Info' it says 'Checking Sizes' and all the messages will appear which are to be downloaded but it won't.
I have tried (all failed):
* Triple checking account details
* Removing and re-adding account
* Marking all as read as I go along
* Moving the downloaded emails to a separate mail box
Please Help!
Gaz

Hello and welcome to the Apple Discussions,
Something similar happened to me with a gmail account with several thousands of emails. As far as I could get, it took some time to the server to allow such number of queries, and increasing the auto check time to 10 minutes, they ended up downloading fine.

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