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.