[MlMt] Mailbox pagination or history limits

[JB]

Thanks - yes still wrapping my brain around the setup instructions, more in
regard to the "important" and "starred" being unsubscribed. I have pulled
out the all mail boxes from sync, but I'm only 27GB downloaded and probably
have 200GB here, and I'm throttled, so it could be a couple of weeks before
I can get a good sync and toggle much on and off to see what's happening if
I let it just go as is. May be too much investment to try to get there.

I suppose I could run a quick filter to tag everything since January as
2025 and synchronize only that mailbox, if I'm thinking about this
correctly.  If All Mail is off, and all new mail gets labelled as 2025, and
that's pretty much all I'm subscribed to, then I suppose I'm only pulling
the new stuff. Then I could move onto 2024 if I needed access to that
email, and then use gmail directly for anything older.

Might have to bail for a couple of days to see how long it takes for IMAP
throttling to back off.

Sent from iPhone
Jeff Boles
Creighton Community Foundation
3609 N 27th St
Phoenix, AZ
https://creightoncommunities.org
M:602.369.1360


On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 4:52 AM Benny Kjær Nielsen <mailinglist at freron.com>
wrote:

> On 18 Aug 2025, at 6:44, JB wrote:
>
> > Just installing and configuring Mailmate, any options to limit the amount
> > of history (starting date) pulled by IMAP?  I'm a packrat, with about 12
> > years of mail in a couple of gmail accounts.
> >
> > Have made it most of the way through the docs, including hidden
> > preferences. Did not see any options for this - is that right?
>
> That is correct. The best you can do is to use “Edit Subscriptions” in the
> account editor to unsubscribe any mailboxes you do not need. Using webmail,
> you could consider putting some of your older emails into separate
> mailboxes.
>
> You might already have read this, but for Gmail accounts it's also
> useful/necessary to know how Gmail (Gimap) does not work like regular IMAP
> and how this affects an email client like MailMate:
> https://manual.mailmate-app.com/account_setup#gmail
>
> --
> Benny
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