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How do I stop Mail app downloading tens of thou...

I am guessing the only way to stop Mail app bloating my hard drive and blowing my data camp is to delete mail app? Is there no way to stop this annoying waste of resources?

Using Yosemite.

Thanks

Depends on your settings in gmail and on mail.

Check your settings in Gmail. In snapshot below, if the user had POP enabled, note option 2.  gmail's copy is in the Inbox. Which means you just keep seeing the same stuff over and over

Check your settings in Apple mail prefs as well as your Gmail prefs via the Web

Personally, I would get on gmail via Web first, delete your tens of thousands of emails first

H Sparkleberry.

so option 2 in the POP settings, is that what would prevent old emails coming down?

So I still have to download and store every new email?

Thanks

Nevermind. I just went into the Mail app package and deleted the Unix executable.

Good riddance! Now hopefully the rest of "meet Yosemite" isn't so B-grade.

Thanks for your advice

logOutOfThisAppleId wrote:

 

Nevermind. I just went into the Mail app package and deleted the Unix executable.

 

Good riddance! Now hopefully the rest of "meet Yosemite" isn't so B-grade.

 

Thanks for your advice

You setup Mail to access Gmail via the IMAP protocol, it is doing what you asked. Perhaps clarify your requirements before assessing Mail as b-grade. An IMAP account will act in the very same manner regardless of which mail client you use. If you do not want the client and the server to stay synchronized, use POP instead.

Maybe what I seek isn't even possible.
I was hoping to use mail like an internet browser window, so I could read my emails without storing them.

Having my emails online is great and if I need to search for something I will find it on googles server. I don't need local search capability.

So IMAP Means download everything
And POP acts like a browser window /doesnt download everything?

Thanks

logOutOfThisAppleId wrote:

 

Nevermind. I just went into the Mail app package and deleted the Unix executable.

 

Good riddance! Now hopefully the rest of "meet Yosemite" isn't so B-grade.

 

Thanks for your advice

I can't improve on comment by Csound1

The mail on both ends is doing what you have instructed 'them' to do.

A new gmail address and more discretion who gets that address would help reduce your incoming mail as well

POP will download unread and new mail only, it will not synchronize so if you use a smartphone the mail will be different from the Mac, useless in other words.

Mail does not take up that much room, the sensible thing is to let the download complete and use Gmail as its designers intended.

So IMAP Means download everything

And POP acts like a browser window /doesnt download everything?

Nevermind I see what you did there.ter in the early days of gmail so have 15 or so years worth of material there, some of it occasionally still relevant.

I was a beta tes

Archive the older mail to a local folder in Mail, it will then be removed from the server but still accessible via your Mac.

Thats pretty much the opposite of what I was after, but thanks though. Mail is really no use to me from what I have leaned and I will likely be happier without it.preciate your time though

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Try to understand, this is nothing to do with Mail, it is the standard behavior for an IMAP account, which is what you are using. Fixing the thing that is not the cause is a waste of time.

Use a POP account, it will not download all the old mail, even if it is in Mail it won't

What are you talking about? The fact that apple mail keeps a local copy of all the messages in the IMAP server HAVE NOTHING TO DO with the IMAP protocol. In fact, it is exactly the opposite: POP is the old protocol where you used to download your incoming messages and store them locally while with IMAP the idea is that messages are kept on the server that is more secure and can be used by many clients at the same time.

Apple mail stores all the messages for being able to use spotlight for search.

It is in the typical apple style to force the users to adopt their design choices. Therefore, even if I do non use the search feature, I have to waste tens of Gb on each and every client of mines because downloading all messages is no longer optional.

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