There's a setting in Gmail to only show the most recent 1,000 messages via IMAP. I would suggest trying that if you have not.
http://images.luo.ma/skitch/gmail_limit_imap-20151223-121006.jpg -- TJ Luoma TJ @ MacStories <http://www.macstories.net/author/tjluoma/> Personal Website: luo.ma <http://luo.ma/> (aka RhymesWithDiploma.com <http://rhymeswithdiploma.com/>) Twitter: @tjluoma <http://twitter.com/tjluoma> On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Phil Dobbin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 23/12/2015 16:43, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote: > > On 23 Dec 2015, at 17:35, Phil Dobbin wrote: > > I've just downloaded MailMate & I'm *very* impressed. > > Thanks for trying out MailMate. > > So far it's downloaded 125,000 messages from what has turned out to be a > malfunctioning Gmail account (it's set only to download messages from 13:00 > hrs this afternoon but it's spewing them out regardless). > > I'm not sure I understand how it's set to do that (or what is set to do > that)... > > MailMate is handling the situation well but it's now time to try & stop > it. I don't want to quit as I suspect it'll only restart the downloads > again when I reboot it, > > Yes, it'll continue what it was doing before you quit it. > > so is there a way I can halt the downloads for the time being? > > Yes, select the account under SOURCES in the mailbox list and then select > “Mailbox ▸ Take Offline”. This can also be done for individual mailboxes > within the account if needed. > > Hi, Benny. > > Thanks for that. MailMate was starting to lock up. > > The email account in question repeatedly keeps downloading thousands of > messages & I've tried all avenues to get it to cease its behaviour but to > no avail... > > MailMate looks great though :-) > > Thanks again for your help, > > Regards, > > Phil... > > > -- > GnuGPG Key : http://phildobbin.org/publickey.asc > > > _______________________________________________ > mailmate mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate > >
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