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Force Download All old Messages from POP3 Account

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shashikantnair
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I just added a POP3 Gmail account. I want to download all messages from my Gmail account in thunderbird. Please help with the process to do it.

I just added a POP3 Gmail account. I want to download all messages from my Gmail account in thunderbird. Please help with the process to do it.

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sfhowes
sfhowes
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Check your settings in gmail (see picture).

shashikantnair
shashikantnair Question owner
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Already Checked the issue exactly is that thunderbird downloading only new emails not all old emails from Gmail. So please tell how to download all email in thunderbird.

sfhowes
sfhowes
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If you have enabled POP for all mail in gmail settings, try renaming the popstate.dat file in the Mail/pop.gmail.com subfolder of the profile folder, with TB closed. When TB is restarted, it should download all mail that is in the Inbox on the server.