Any way to retrieve old messages to Mail after reinstalling OS?

Hi,
My hard drive crashed and I had to buy a new drive, so I lost the 20,000 messages that had been saved in my inbox. I use gmail and another local server (optonline). Is there any way to pull these messages off the server and into my mail program so I can have them in my new mail? I really need to be able to access these messages from my hard drive. Thanks!

did you use gmail IMAP or gmail POP? if you used gmail IMAP then all your messages are on the server and all you need to do is set up your gmail IMAP account in Mail. it will sync with the server and you'll get all your messages. If you used gmail POP then it depends on whether you kept the messages on server after retrieving them. if you didn't they are gone. if you did then you have two options
1. set up gmail IMAP.
2. set up gmail POP, then go to webmail gmail->settings->forwarding & POP/IMAP and check the option to allow POP downloading ALL messages.

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