Restrain download of old emails

I have a MacBook Air. My email address is a Gmail one and everytime I checked my emails it downloaded thousands of old emails that already were in my inbox. At the Apple Store they fixed something in my Gmail settings on internet and it has stopped doing that, but it still continues to download random old emails. How can I stop it? thank you

I didn't get a repair ticket. They did a change in "Forwarding and POP/IMAP', now, thie setting says:
"1. Status: POP is enabled for all mail that has arrived since 2 May"
"Status: IMAP is enabled"

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Thanks for the feedback.
On closer inspection there is an option on the Gmail POP setting page (in Gmail) to choose "Mail from today"!!!!! Moral of story is to RTFM
Again many thanks for taking the trouble to reply.
Roger

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On Conflicts: Mailbox Wins

Hi
I have understand what your asking.plz check the below
your using web mail via BIs configuration.
1.kindly chk it 's your old mail is in your current mail inbox.
see the bb pushes only the new mail after the configuration.
2.kindly check you recently sync your old BB backup to restore in HH and revet any clarification
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Areevam
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I hope this helps!
GL!

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The genius bar technicians can check your MBP for possible hardware problems and specific software issues that you may have. The diagnosis will be free. Any extensive repairs will not be free.
If you have minor software problems, you essentially will have to deal with them yourself. Examine these two comprehensive documents for possible problem definition and solutions. If you encounter problems that you are unable to cope with, start a new discussion and there will be persons willing to assist you in solving them.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3521
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3353
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I want to back up an IMAP account via POP3 in Thunderbird but it will not download old emails that are still on the server. How can I do this?

I wand to use Thunderbird to back up and purge old emails from an account via POP3. This account is accessed by other users using IMAP on their computers and phones.
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Pop mail accounts must be set up to 'leave messages on the server'.
check this before using.
* Tools > Account Settings > Server Settings for the mail account
or
* menu icon > Options > Account Settings > Server Settings for the mail account
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click on Ok to save settings.
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Create the same folders in 'Local Folders'.
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You would need to backup emails in these folders.
See info:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/IMAP_backup
MozBackup:
* http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
ImportExporttool:
* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/

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Restrain download of old emails

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