thunderbird question with gmail
Paul Smith
phhs80 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 20 15:16:03 UTC 2009
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri at gmail.com> wrote:
> Last Friday I was trying to download all my gmail email from google down to
> my PC. I succeeded in getting everything from June of 2008 to July of
> 2009. I had to stop at that point since I had to leave for the airport.
> When I tried today it told me there was nothing to do which of course is
> wrong since there is email from July 2009 to Dec 2009 to pull. When I set
> the "pop for all mail" option in gmail I was able to resume downloading
> email except that it started from June 2008, so now I have several hundred
> duplicate email messages. How do I download the July 2009 - Dec 2009 emails
> without having to delete the June 2008 to July 2009 emails from gmail? The
> only other option in gmail is the "pop for mail that arrives from now on"
> which starts from the current time. Obviously I can delete all the already
> downloaded email and start over, but I was hoping for a better way.
Instead of using the POP3 protocol, why not using IMAP?
Paul
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