Why does my SBC email only go back to 2017?

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DemetriaC, AT&T Community Specialist

Demetria, I appreciate your reply.

If you look at my question, this has nothing to do with simply refreshing the cache or browser. The emails simply do not show up any further back than 2017. Would ATT have dropped them from the changeover with SBC or could there be some reason? 

These are emails well over a decade old but that I know were never erased by me.

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Blanca, AT&T Community Specialist

They are emails from BEFORE 2017. Its been a good while since I checked back that far but they were there at least some time before but no, it was not in the last 7 days.

I am trying to figure out why then it would simply not show any emails prior to that? I understand that ATT would not delete them necessarily but with the change from SBCgolbal/yahoo/Currently/AT&T, etc I am trying to figure out if they got lost somewhere and if so how would I get them back.

Frank