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Reloading of old Pop Gmail emails to Thunderbird

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fcdekock
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I had to rebuild my Win7 machine, but lost all email backups. The data is still on the server. The Gmail server to Thunderbird works fine, for new emails, but how can I reload the already emails (they are all in "All Emails"-folder. I am using Pop3 and moved a few messaged to the Inbox. I read somewhere to delete the the popstate.dat file, but still no luck. Get Messages report "No new messages". Howcan I force the reloading of all ready downloaded messages in the Inbox?

I had to rebuild my Win7 machine, but lost all email backups. The data is still on the server. The Gmail server to Thunderbird works fine, for new emails, but how can I reload the already emails (they are all in "All Emails"-folder. I am using Pop3 and moved a few messaged to the Inbox. I read somewhere to delete the the popstate.dat file, but still no luck. Get Messages report "No new messages". Howcan I force the reloading of all ready downloaded messages in the Inbox?

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See https://support.google.com/mail/answer/13291?hl=en

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christ1
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Chosen Solution

See https://support.google.com/mail/answer/13291?hl=en

If this article doesn't answer your question ask in a Google forum.

fcdekock
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The key to the solution was the somewhat hidden Setting:Set Status:Reload all email already downloaded. Many thanks!