How do I stop Mail from downloading all 15,000 messages from Gmail?

I recently switched to Mail as my email client. On the initial launch, the POP account seems to be downloading everything that's on the server, which is taking forever, and isn't necessary. Is there any way to avoid this?
thanks,
Joe

Pamlynn wrote:
I am set to imap. I will move the inbox messages to another folder and see if that helps. Thank you!
You said you had the same problem as the original poster. He is using POP. IMAP works differently.

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