Disabling the spam filter didn't help me at all, I still can't get any
mail past October 2007.
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Evolution fails to download some gmail emails
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/121090
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I'm having the same issue as well -- Evolution downloaded the forst 200
or so emails from gmail when I first configured it, but now it won't
download any at all, and it only got about half my old messages.
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Evolution fails to download some gmail emails
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/121090