On a Win Vista computer, in Windows Live Mail, I created a subfolder in my "sent box" called "abcd".  Then I copied 2225 messages from a folder in my "personal folders" to this folder "abcd".  I did this because I wanted to "replicate" the messages in that abcd folder to the mail server (Microsoft "live.be" server) so that I could, in a second phase, replicate these same messages from the server to my new computer.

After I copied these 2225 messages from"Personal Folders" into "abcd", I noticed that the replication to the server started, but it stopped after 471 msgs were replicated.  After a while, I stopped WLM and restarted is, and then it continued replication with another 210 messages.  In short, in order to replicate all 2225 messages, I had to stop and start WLM 6 or 7 times.  One time, after the replication stopped, I waited more than 1 hour for the replication to resume, but no luck.

Can someone please tell me where I can find why the replication session was halted after a number of messages?  Probably IMAP does, in one session, only replicate a certain number of messages, or a certain number of bytes?  Or is there another limit that causes that the replication task needs to be chopped into several sessions?  If there exists such limit, can it be changed?  If yes, please tell me where.

Thanks in advance!