Mac Mail only syncs about 3 weeks of my Gmail messages

Howdy...


I have a brand new MacBook Pro 14 M2.


I've setup the Mac Mail program and it works great, and says it's downloaded about 7500 emails in total from my account... But for some reason, every folder in my mailbox only shows emails back to Aug 21st, about 3 weeks ago... I can't seem to get it to sync or show me messages from before that date... This isn't a problem on my Windows Desktop running Thunderbird, or on the Gmail webclient. Just on Mac Mail. Any help would be appreciated... Thanks! -Ben


Posted on Sep 7, 2023 6:05 PM

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Sep 8, 2023 11:03 AM in response to Benjamin Freedman

Quick update: Quick update... I tried this on another computer running Monterrey, and had the exact same problem... No emails before Aug 25th now... No idea why. I also tried creating a brand new login account with brand new AppleID... Same problem... It's gotta be either a setting in gmail or one in apple settings but I can't find anything that would account for this... Any help would be appreciated... (sorry about the double post)

Sep 8, 2023 12:00 PM in response to Benjamin Freedman

Update: I had my imap settings on gmail to limit to 5000 emails per folder... which works perfectly using Windows Mail or Mac Thunderbird Client.... But when I changed this to 'no limit'... all of suddent Mac Mail downloaded all my emails in my inbox back to the oldest one! Perfect!!!!


I have no idea why this should be. Gotta be a bug in Apple Mail, as it happens on multiple Apple Mail programs on different computers, but works correctly on Thunderbird on the same computers, and on Windows...


Anyways... problem solved for now! Except for the fact that I can't limit my folders to 5000 emails anymore... :)


-Ben

Mac Mail only syncs about 3 weeks of my Gmail messages

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