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Why does desktop email client only download 300-400 msgs at a time?

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sweetcow

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Oct 20, 2008
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I'm trying to download all the messages in my gmail account for backup. This is 1000s and 1000s of messages. But when I download them into my desktop client (I've tried both Outlook 2007 and Thunderbird 2.0) they only download emails in chunks of 300-400. Then I have to rehit "send/receive". Is there an option to tweak so there's not this limitation? thanks.
 
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