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Thunderbird re-downloading years of messages from gmail!

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I was having email sending problems (see other thread) with gmail/thunderbird 38.4.0, and I must have changed something in my receive settings, because now Thunderbird is re-downloading all messages starting from July 2013! I use POP because I like to be able to remove my messages from Gmail's server when they are downloaded to Thunderbird. I have POP enabled and IMAP disabled. I don't know where these messages are coming from because when I log into gmail in my browser, there doesn't seem to be any messages there except in my Sent folder. I though they had been getting removed all this time after Thunderbird downloaded them, but apparently not since they are all coming in again. I'm getting inundated with mail now. Funny thing is that it's not grabbing the new messages in my inbox when they arrive in gmail in the browser (or maybe it will get to them after it's done downloading 2013, 2014, and 2015!) Can anyone help?

I was having email sending problems (see other thread) with gmail/thunderbird 38.4.0, and I must have changed something in my receive settings, because now Thunderbird is re-downloading all messages starting from July 2013! I use POP because I like to be able to remove my messages from Gmail's server when they are downloaded to Thunderbird. I have POP enabled and IMAP disabled. I don't know where these messages are coming from because when I log into gmail in my browser, there doesn't seem to be any messages there except in my Sent folder. I though they had been getting removed all this time after Thunderbird downloaded them, but apparently not since they are all coming in again. I'm getting inundated with mail now. Funny thing is that it's not grabbing the new messages in my inbox when they arrive in gmail in the browser (or maybe it will get to them after it's done downloading 2013, 2014, and 2015!) Can anyone help?

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I figured it out. Apparently the messages were only deleted from Google's inbox, and still resided in other folders in GMail. I changed something in my Gmail and Thunderbird settings that caused everything to be downloaded again by Thunderbird. I saw what was happening and stopped it. I closed Thunderbird before it could do any more, then went into GMail and deleted everything that had already been deleted from the All Mail folder. Then I ran Thunderbird and all was well, after I cleaned up the previous duplicate messages. Gmail tries hard to hang on to your email, so it can be analyzed for marketing purposes!

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الحل المُختار

I figured it out. Apparently the messages were only deleted from Google's inbox, and still resided in other folders in GMail. I changed something in my Gmail and Thunderbird settings that caused everything to be downloaded again by Thunderbird. I saw what was happening and stopped it. I closed Thunderbird before it could do any more, then went into GMail and deleted everything that had already been deleted from the All Mail folder. Then I ran Thunderbird and all was well, after I cleaned up the previous duplicate messages. Gmail tries hard to hang on to your email, so it can be analyzed for marketing purposes!