How to limit Outlook from downloading all messages from Gmail?

[Jason]

I use Outlook with Gmail via pop3 and recently reformatted my PC. I have set up Outlook again but it wants to download my entire Gmail inbox during send and receive and i would like to limit it to a certain recent date perhaps so I don't have to download 1000+ messages into my inbox.

Any help would really be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I use Outlook with Gmail via pop3 and recently reformatted my PC. I
have set up Outlook again but it wants to download my entire Gmail
inbox during send and receive and i would like to limit it to a
certain recent date perhaps so I don't have to download 1000+
messages into my inbox.

By setting up Outlook again, you overwrote the data Outlook uses to remember
which messages it has downloaded. Your choices are: 1) switch to IMAP, 2)
Create a new PST, make it your delivery location, allow Outlook to download
all those messages, then switch back to your original PST, 3) set the
option in gmail to not allow downloading of older messages, or 4) create a
new folder IN GMAIL (via the web interface) and move the contents of the
Inbox to that folder so that Outlook doesn't see them then it connects.

 

[VanguardLH]

Jason wrote:

Alas, another FUDforum user posting overly long physical lines. Maybe
FUDforum will someday fix their forum-to-Usenet gateway.

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Please inform the administrator or moderators of your FUDforum to fix
their forum-to-Usenet gateway. Their forum posts are 1 physical line
per paragraph and assume the reader application will perform automatic
logical line wrapping. The result is their posts consist of single very
long lines that are hundreds of characters long. Newsgroups posts
should physically line-wrap at 76 characters, or less. They must also
be under 998 characters in maximum length to be RFC compliant. Ask your
FUDforum admin or moderator to be polite when gatewaying their posts to
Usenet by reformatting their posts before dumping them in newsgroups.
--- FUDforum: Borrowing Usenet to pretend they have a larger community.


Use the webmail interface to your Gmail account. If you are using POP
to access your Gmail account, move the items in the Inbox folder into
some other folder. If using IMAP, create a server-side folder (that you
don't subscribe to in Outlook) and move your Inbox items into that
holding folder. Leave only the messages that you want to download in
the Inbox folder. Use Outlook to get those select set of messages.

You said that you are using POP to access your Gmail account. POP only
has a concept of a mailbox. It doesn't understand folders, just one
mailbox from which to query and yank messages. The Inbox server-side
folder is the mailbox that POP sees. So just move out of the Inbox
folder (using the webmail interface) any items that you don't want to
download. Move them back when you do want to download them.