Log into your gmail account in Safari and go to settings > labels > untick all
mail, starred and important. That will cut down the amount that needs to sync
with Mail.
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> On 29 May 2014, at 04:49, Michael Dennis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> further on my mail issue. i closed and reopened mail and it’s now up to
> 425,000 messages. My hard drive is also filling up. I took a screen shot and
> the all Mail folder seems to be the one that is taking up the space. IMAP is
> supposed to leave it all on the gmail server isn’t it?
>
> <mail.tiff>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I've a worrying issue with my email. I swapped from pop to IMAP from POP
>> yesterday. I lost my phone and so bought an iPad as a replacement and wanted
>> it all set up so I can effectively use as my mobile computer/ phone.
>>
>> Anyway, all went well. We have google apps for the business so easy set up
>> and I am archiving the emails.
>>
>> The thing is the status window in the bottom of mail is open and I noticed
>> that the incoming mail got to 32million messages ie it was saying
>> downloading 32,345,345 of 32,456,456.
>>
>> Is there mischief going on here do you think? I receive all our site and app
>> email so there are probably hundreds of thousands of emails since we started
>> using google, but not 32 million, I don't think. There's around 10,000
>> emails archived which is about right.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>
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