help!!!! e-mails wont download

[MrWatchDawg]

so i had been out of country for the last month and half and i come back to the office and i have 22000 e-mails, given about half are spam, i still need to download them.


I can see them on the web but when i used thunderbird or outlook express it will not download them. on thunderbird it just gets stuck and outlook it just gets stuck on the first e-mail

what can i do? i need to download them