How to configure mbsync to limit the number of emails downloaded to
local?
reddit / emacs

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ndpian · 2022-03-20 00:12

I'm in the process of shifting my mail clients to Emacs, and have
mostly configured the full setup (mbsync+mu4e). Initially, running
`mbsync -aV` would just download all emails from the remote. While
this wasn't a problem for my work email (a relatively new mailbox), I
suspect this would be of a greater issue for my personal gmail as I
have thousands of useless/spam/marketing emails which just eats up
space.
Given the download rate limit from gmail (2.5GB per day) and my
limited local drive space, I was wondering if there is any setup in
mbsync to only download N number of recent emails, or download emails
after a specific year.  (I could, alternatively, just cleanup my gmail
inbox. Maybe that will be the last option!)

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licht1nstein · 2022-03-20 05:08

MaxSize 1m
MaxMessages 10000

You can use `MaxSize` and `MaxMessages` settings for that.

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ndpian · 2022-03-20 20:49

thanks! I'll try this! :)