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Retrieving Old Google Mail
While a long-time user of Thunderbird, I only discovered a few months ago that I could successfully front-end my GMail account. For several decades I collected and colla… (читать ещё)
While a long-time user of Thunderbird, I only discovered a few months ago that I could successfully front-end my GMail account. For several decades I collected and collated all my mail from the several different POP servers I've used, but did not know that Thunderbird could treat the IMAP-based Google mail server as if POP.
So, for the past several months, I have been very, very happy to have my GMail recent email traffic integrated with the others.
What I have not discovered how to accomplish is the retrieval of a trove of some rather important emails exchanged and retained on the GMail server from about 2012 through 2021. I know that I could forward those emails to one of my other POP accounts and they would be sent to my Thunderbird front end as newly-arrived emails and I will do that if there is no way to achieve what I would actually like to achieve which would be the ability to coerce the server and client into treating the old emails as fresh, so that I could receive and catalog them without the distorted history that would appertain by forwarding them -- showing up as forwarded from rather than sent from the original parties and carrying a modern date rather than the historically-correct one.
Coercing the server side into restoring the old emails to an UnRead state does not have the desired effect. Any suggestion from anyone who has faced a similar conundrum and solved it would be much appreciated.