[MlMt] Stop mail download

[Phil Dobbin]

On 23/12/2015 17:11, TJ Luoma wrote:
> 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
>
I missed that. Thanks very much. It'll save a lot of time.

Cheers,

     Phil...




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