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Missing Mac Mail Message Body's After Rebuild of Account

I recently had to recreate a user account on a iBook running Tiger.  I was able to restore the mailbox (I thought), but some of the messages before a certain date do not have anything in the body.  The message body shows the following:

The message from . . .  concerning THANK YOU has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it.

Any suggestions?
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I don't have a tiger system with a version of mail that old, but it sounds like there might be a setting somewhere in preferences that told the mail app to only download the header info and leave the body of the email on the server.

Do you have web mail access to this account?  If so, you could probably log onto that and see if the emails themselves are still there.
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I do not believe the messages are still there.  It is a POP3 account and the messages are deleted after they are downloaded.
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