[MlMt] Stop mail download

[TJ Luoma]

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


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On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Phil Dobbin <phildobbin at gmail.com> 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...
>
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