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IMAP is designed to keep your email on the server while showing a "view" of it in Thunderbird. You can configure it to only download the full content of recent messages while still showing the "headers" (subject, sender, date) for everything else.

Limiting Thunderbird to download only recent emails is a common way to save disk space and speed up synchronization, especially when dealing with years of old messages. The method for doing this depends entirely on whether your account is set up with or POP3 . For IMAP Accounts: Synchronize by Age thunderbird only download recent emails