Hi,

is the log I provided enough for figuring out why isync downloads all
mails from Gmail during the first sync, ignoring MaxMessages?

Shall I provide any additional information?

Thanks,
A.

> I have synchronised my Gmail account (just INBOX, All, Drafts & Trash)
> using MaxMessages 1000. All my messages in those mailboxes have been
> downloaded. It took a while for All, as it's >33000. However, the CPU
> usage was very modest. This is cool. With other programs, my poor
> laptop would explode doing the same thing.
>
> On the second sync, mbsync got rid of all but the latest 1000 messages
> for the mailbox All. The rest were not pruned since they have very few
> emails in them.
>
> I tried again marking all the messages in my Gmail account as read and
> unstarred (no flag). The result is the same. mbsync tries to
> synchronise the whole mailbox (>33000 mails).
>
> I killed mbsync once it got past 1000 emails, although I could see
> it'll go beyond 1000 from the very beginning as the status was S:
> +0/33813.
>
> I'm attaching a ls of my All Mail maibox after syncing the first 1000
> emails. It seems that emails are synced in UID order. Gmail assigns
> UID 1 to your oldest email, and so on. I've checked that my email #1
> is the welcome email to Gmail.
>
> Please let me now if I can be of further help.
>
> Thanks,
> A.

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