Get only most recent emails in Mail app?

First time posting, please go easy on me
Hi there!
On my Mac, I was trying to set up the Mail app to use one of my older emails. When I did it, it started downloading every single email I have ever sent using that email. I've had this email since about 2009, so there's a fair amount of undeleted messages.
What I'd like to do, is to be able to set it up so that I only see a few recent messages, like on my iPhone, where after a while, it just stops showing them to you and only ever actually keeps a handful on the device itself.
(That is to say, my iPhone only ever keeps about 12 emails, and periodically just kind of wipes them from the device. New ones just kind of fill in when they arrive. But the point is that the emails go away after a while.)
Is this actually possible? Or am I totally insane for even thinking this could be a possibility?
Cheers,
Drew
Mid-2011 iMac, OS X Yosemite 10.10.1
(P.S. If you were wondering, to type the , just hit ⌥+⇧+K (option+shift+K))

Hello Paul.
Be carefull when using multiple mail clients on a single POP account, that's not the way POP was designed.
Consider using IMAP instead, or be carefull with the settings of each of your email client, especially concerning the deletion policy.
Most email client can be configured to delete message from the server immediatly, after a period of time, or never.
What could happen is Outlook does retrieve mail fine, then deletes them.
When Mail comes to get the mail, it only gets the one arrived after the last Outlook retrieve, but Mail by default keeps message on the server for something like 7 days, that's why Outlook can then retrieve all messages the next time it checks your POP account, but because it deletes them all, Mail is missing some of them.
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