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Only the last 2 years of emails have been downloaded from Gmail. Only the last 2 years of emails have been downloaded from Gmail. I am using POPI am using POP. Is there a setting in gmail that I have missed>

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Only the last 2 years of emails have been downloaded from Gmail. I am using POP'" I have used thunderbird for years on my old computer Regards

''Only the last 2 years of emails have been downloaded from Gmail. I am using POP'" I have used thunderbird for years on my old computer Regards

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Thunderbird keeps track of POP downloads with a file named popstate.dat. If you locate that in the Mail/accout folder, just delete it and Thunderbird should then download eveything.

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Hi. Thanks for the quick response. I renamed the popstate file and a new one was created by thunderbird when I did a get messages. It has only the header info in it. No data. Only about 250 emails were downloaded and none older than 2020. Possibly 2021. Kind regards Audrey

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Hello gr0m1t

Did you connect to Gmail with the web interface to see what's the situation there ? You are talking about an 'old computer', do you have a backup of this 'old computer' ?