Get messages back on server?

I accidentally chose POP instead of IMAP for my gmail account in Apple Mail, and I was wondering if there was a way to reverse that and get my messages back on my gmail account.
I use 5 different operating systems and an iPhone, POP will NOT work as I need it to.

Listen to V.K.
Gmail is not true POP. It only presents a subset of the messages in the Inbox (and also the All Mail) folder on the server for access as POP . Although without a certain setting, those POP messages will only be presented to the first computer or device accessing as POP, the messages should still be on the server. If you remove the account, and set it back up, and on the POP/IMAP settings page in Gmail accessed via the browser, select to have it download all messages, you will find them both on your Mac, and on the server.
You might also consider setting your Gmail account up for access as an IMAP account, but that is a different subject, perhaps.
If you have been using the Gmail SMTP, your sent messages will also be on the server, but if concerned you can copy the messages in both the Inbox and Sent to other On My Mac mailboxes until you confirm what I (and V.K.) am saying.
Ernie
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