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How to make thunderbird download only new mail from Gmail

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webgenius
webgenius Original post #1
Feb 25, 2007 at 7:42 PM
I installed Mozilla Thunderbird today. I checked the option "Automatically download new messages". Still Thunderbird downloads all the mails, which I have already seen in my Gmail inbox. How can I make Thunderbird download only new mail and not delete any mails from server?
mod-the-pc
mod-the-pc #2
Feb 25, 2007 at 8:52 PM
Go to Tools>Account Settings and enable Leave messages on server to ensure that the mails are not deleted from the server

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webgenius
webgenius #3
Feb 25, 2007 at 9:10 PM
How to make it download only new messages?
prasad_den
prasad_den #4
Feb 25, 2007 at 9:23 PM
webgenius said:
How to make it download only new messages?
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In GMail options, go to POP settings, and enable POP forwarding from now on.. Do it again even if you have already enabled it.. Then any message that you receive from now on only will be forwarded to your thundrbird..!!