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I'm not downloading all my e-mails

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jdmack
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My business partner's husband has a Comcast account with 30,000+ e-mails going back to 2008. He wants to save these e-mails to his computer before he deletes them from the online server. I installed Thunderbird on his computer and configured the settings for a POP account. When I checked the email, Thunderbird downloaded 5000+ e-mails dating back to August 2014. I tried checking the e-mail again and it only downloaded the new messages that had come in. How do I get it to download all 30,000 e-mails?

My business partner's husband has a Comcast account with 30,000+ e-mails going back to 2008. He wants to save these e-mails to his computer before he deletes them from the online server. I installed Thunderbird on his computer and configured the settings for a POP account. When I checked the email, Thunderbird downloaded 5000+ e-mails dating back to August 2014. I tried checking the e-mail again and it only downloaded the new messages that had come in. How do I get it to download all 30,000 e-mails?

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Matt
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are all the emails in the inbox? usually they do not come in because they are in some other folder.