I cannot retrieve my gmail on my desktop computer if I have already read it on my laptop computer.

We have three E-Mail accounts - one AT&T, and two gmail. I read the mail on all three accounts using Thunderbird on our laptop when we travel and our desktop when we are at home. When we return from a trip and I turn on the desktop computer and it's Thunderbird, all of my mail on the AT&T account gets downloaded but none of the mail on either gmail account is downloaded. This means that I have to run both computers at home if I want to deal with both past and current E-Mails.
The laptop is running Windows 8 and Thunderbird 24.5.0 and the desktop is running Windows 8.1 and Thunderbird 31.1.2. In spite of the difference in the release numbers, both computers say that my Thunderbird is up-to-date.

It is interesting that "Recent Mode" is in violation of the RFC's for POP mail. When asked by a pop client for all mail that is what is supposed to be supplied. Unfortunately for Google they have made such a mess of email that complying with the RFC would mean some clients would get 10 or more Gb of mail because now we save everything to the cloud and in Google's case they encourage permanent storage. Even it we don't want to. Good one Google, perhaps you to could call it "innovation"

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