The Mail app is syncing all of my emails... even those that are like from than a year ago and older... I don't need them, I'd rather get rid of them and free up some storage space if possible.. The Mail app is currently taking around 5GB of my storage space!!! please help?!
MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
What's wrong with deleting the messages you no longer want to keep?
Sometimes it's convenient to keep some, but not need them filling up your iphone. What's wrong with having the ability to limit synching to the last 50 messages or the last 2 weeks - just like it was on iOS6 and 5 and 4.... etc?
You can't limit it to the last 50 messages, but you can limit it to the last 1000 messages in each "folder" (label).
Go to the Gmail website and click on the gear icon to the top-right side.
Click on Settings.
Click on the "Forwarding and IMAP/POP" tab across the top of the Settings area.
Towards the bottom of the IMAP section, change the "Folder Size Limit" setting to "Limit IMAP folders to contain no more than this many messages". By default 1000 is selected, though you can also choose 2000, 5000, or 10000.
Click Save Changes at the bottom.
How to limit the number of emails synced through the Mail app?
