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My configured account reports no messages on POP3 gmail account. But if I configure a new account with same settings, it finds over 200 messages to download

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I have been using gmail account for over 5 years now and there has been no problem downloading POP3 messages. Recently I found that some of the messages are not downloaded by Thunderbird, but were available for online viewing. Suddenly sometimes I get 2 days old messages downloaded by Thunderbird. If I create an account in Outlook Express, it finds messages to download. If I create a new account with same settings on Thunderbird, it finds these messages to download, but my existing configured account doesn't download the messages.

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I have been using gmail account for over 5 years now and there has been no problem downloading POP3 messages. Recently I found that some of the messages are not downloaded by Thunderbird, but were available for online viewing. Suddenly sometimes I get 2 days old messages downloaded by Thunderbird. If I create an account in Outlook Express, it finds messages to download. If I create a new account with same settings on Thunderbird, it finds these messages to download, but my existing configured account doesn't download the messages. Any clue?

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new accounts default to IMAP not POP and therefore can see new messages in folders other than the inbox, like important and family and a whole raft of gmail specific folders.

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I had configured my account as POP and not IMAP.

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Have you enabled the "r5ecent mode at gmail ? if not you best do so. Or find a more standards compliant provider like yahoo.