How to RE-retrieve email from POP account that's already been retrieved?

[Paul F.]

SO.... in the process of cleaning up my Eudora inbox, with one bit of a "slip", I deleted all of my last week or so's email... and emptied the trash....

Fortunately, all that mail still resides on my email server... and I can access it via Web Mail.

How the heck do I RE-retrieve that weeks worth of email using Eudora?
Marking the emails in the Web Mail as "Unread" didn't seem to tickle Eudora's fancy...

Heck I"m not even sure if the 'marker' that tells Eudora whether to download a message or not is on the mail server, or on the client side?

Pointers welcome!

[Doc]

If it's just a week's worth, is that too much to forward to yourself?

[Paul F.]

Doc;

I might resort to that...
But that's about 250 messages. Of course, probably half of that I'll delete because it's irrelvant trash anyway...

I think I'm on to something... Need to test and be right back.

[Paul F.]

OK.. problem solved!

Moved the messages to another folder in the Webmail interface... then checked mail with Eudora... then moved the messages BACK to the webmail Inbox...
Checked mail in Eudora, and now the messages are magically "new" again...


Off to update my not-as-often-as-it-should-be backup...
(I have GOT to get a big enough backup drive to use Time Machine! Dang it!).

[DewGuy]

Paul F. wrote:
OK.. problem solved!

Moved the messages to another folder in the Webmail interface... then checked mail with Eudora... then moved the messages BACK to the webmail Inbox...
Checked mail in Eudora, and now the messages are magically "new" again...


Off to update my not-as-often-as-it-should-be backup...
(I have GOT to get a big enough backup drive to use Time Machine! Dang it!).

Glad to hear that you got the problem solved. In the past, without realizing what I was doing, using web mail I moved my messages out of the inbox and then back, which downloaded them all again to Eudora. In my case they were duplicates and I had to go through my email in various Eudora mailboxes and weed out the dupes. Stupid mistake. I'm not positive but I believe Eudora keeps track of what it's download etc., locally on your Mac.