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<p dir="auto">On 23 Dec 2015, at 17:35, Phil Dobbin wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">I've just downloaded MailMate & I'm <em>very</em> impressed.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Thanks for trying out MailMate.</p>
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<p dir="auto">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).</p>
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<p dir="auto">I'm not sure I understand how it's set to do that (or what is set to do that)...</p>
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<p dir="auto">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,</p>
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<p dir="auto">Yes, it'll continue what it was doing before you quit it.</p>
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<p dir="auto">so is there a way I can halt the downloads for the time being?</p>
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<p dir="auto">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.</p>
<p dir="auto">-- <br>
Benny</p>
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