<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div><a href="http://images.luo.ma/skitch/gmail_limit_imap-20151223-121006.jpg">http://images.luo.ma/skitch/gmail_limit_imap-20151223-121006.jpg</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br><div><div dir="ltr">-- </div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">TJ Luoma</span><br><div><a href="http://www.macstories.net/author/tjluoma/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">TJ @ MacStories</a></div><div><a href="http://luo.ma/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Personal Website: luo.ma</a> (aka <a href="http://rhymeswithdiploma.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">RhymesWithDiploma.com</a>)</div><div><a href="http://twitter.com/tjluoma" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Twitter: @tjluoma</a><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Phil Dobbin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:phildobbin@gmail.com" target="_blank">phildobbin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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>
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Hi, Benny.<br>
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Thanks for that. MailMate was starting to lock up.<br>
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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...<br>
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MailMate looks great though :-)<br>
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Thanks again for your help,<br>
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Regards,<span class=""><br>
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Phil...<br>
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