I have run Windows Live Mail on my desktop PC for some time and I have built up quite a large file of deleted emails that I wish to retain. I installed WLM on my laptop so I could use it when I was away from home. However when I start the program on my laptop it downloads all those deleted emails. I tried to remove them as they arrived but there were too many of them, so I shut WLM down.

Is there some way to prevent those old emails being downloaded?