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Re:Google Users Locked Out After 15 Years' Use (2020) by sufehmi on Sunday February 27, 2022 @02:53AM (#30486287)
IMAP just download the index, not the content.

When you click on an email - then it'll download that email. Attachment is also probably you have to click it too.

That's just not feasible when you (turned out to have) nearly 150 K emails in your Gmail account.

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Re:Google Users Locked Out After 15 Years' Use (2020) by sufehmi on Sunday February 27, 2022 @06:28AM (#30487316)
OK I found out a feature in Thunderbird called "Offline Work" - it seems to cause it to download the whole emails.

Currently giving this a try, fingers crossed.

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