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I installed Thunderbird 136.4 (64-bit) today on a new windows 11 Pro PC. I created 4 - POP3 accounts. The 1 gmail address downloaded all older emails from the servers, but the 3 TDS email addresses only downloaded a couple of months of emails. I can't find a setting that will find and download older emails. I checked the online TDS accounts and they have years of emails on them. Anyone else have that problem? Is there a solution anywhere?

I installed Thunderbird 136.4 (64-bit) today on a new windows 11 Pro PC. I created 4 - POP3 accounts. The 1 gmail address downloaded all older emails from the servers, but the 3 TDS email addresses only downloaded a couple of months of emails. I can't find a setting that will find and download older emails. I checked the online TDS accounts and they have years of emails on them. Anyone else have that problem? Is there a solution anywhere?

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Perhaps move your data. POP mail is not connected to the mail server once downloaded and some mail providers simply only offer mail once for pop download, like Google.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/moving-thunderbird-data-to-a-new-computer

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Perhaps move your data. POP mail is not connected to the mail server once downloaded and some mail providers simply only offer mail once for pop download, like Google.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/moving-thunderbird-data-to-a-new-computer

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Thanks Matt! That was just too easy. I appreciate your help :-)