How To Break Up Huge POP3 Downloads?

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Someone has asked me to help switch from EarthLink's web-based email client to Outlook 2013. There are just over 14,000 emails in the inbox, and I need to download them to a PST file, then keep only the last 30 days of messages online going forward.

My past experience with POP3, being a text-based protocol without a robust checksum mechanism, occasionally drops a character during long, single transfers. This results in blocks of locally garbled and lost messages.

Can you suggest any way (including programmatically) that I can break up the transfer into blocks of, say, 1,000 message downloads?

That way, if any message gets garbled, I can locally delete and re-download only that block, until I am sure that I have all of the messages safely on the computer before removing that block from the server.
 
I'm not aware of any way to do that. Current mail clients, including Outlook, should handle the download without a problem though. I know outlook will download a block of messages (not sure the total count) then pause to check for new mail and outgoing mail and start the next block.
 
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