Downloading bodies of Old Emails

I downloaded 10,000's old emails from my server.
Then, I deleted thousands of unwanted emails.
based on their headers and subjects..
Now I'm finding emails where only the header was
downloaded and not the body, at all.
Is there some routine to loop through my emails and
download the missing email bodies?
I've not deleted the emails from my server.
and I have I POP3 connection, though I can change it IMAP.
Thank you,
John O,
In Annapolis, MD

IMAP or POP account and who is your email provider?
Apple support article about receiving email more than once, but it didn't work for my wife, so.........
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11776?viewlocale=en_US

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