How to stop mail downloading ALL of my hotmail emails

Basically I am setting up Mail, and it is downloading ALL of my hotmail emails... there's 1623 of them! How can I stop this? Perhaps letting it only download emails from the past 2 weeks etc?

What version of [Mac] OS X are you running on your Mac? (Your profile says iOS 7.0.1, but that system is for iPhones and iPads, not Macs.)
If you are running a recent version of OS X, Mail should have a mailbox group named "FLAGGED" in the left sidebar. Click on it to view all flagged messages; click on one of the flag colors listed under it to view messages flagged with that color.

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I don't want this, how can I stop it from downloading thousands more old mails?

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Mac Mail displaying incorrect name to the "To" and "from" field of all of my Hotmail emails

When Hotmail is viewed via Mac Mail, the To: field displays the recipient’s name & Hotmail address. There is a serious problem with my incoming Hotmail … instead of displaying my name and Hotmail email address it displays my friend’s name (initials are RB) alongside my Hotmail email address ... for every Hotmail email that is sent to me no matter who emails me. My contact/address book entries for my name and my friend are correct in Mac Address Book and Hotmail Contacts. Very strange.
Mac Mail seems to be adding recipient name to the To: field of all of my Hotmail emails & putting in the wrong name next to my email address! I say this because the officialwww.hotmail.com site only displays a recipient email address in the To: field (no name appears). This error is only happening in Mac Mail with my Hotmail emails (not happening with my Gmail and Yahoo emails).
How/why is a wrong name/my friend's name displayed next to my email address in every Hotmail message I view in Mac Mail?
This error is only occurring in incoming Hotmail messages addressed to me. Emails that I send using my Hotmail show my name & email address correctly in the From field.
Thank you

Mail has Smart Addresses that will display the name and email address under Preferences > Viewing, but your issue sounds like a different issue.
Did you setup an outlook.com alias in Outlook.com when it made the transition? If not, add an alias and see if that helps. You can also test sending from the outlook.com alias to see if the results are as expected.
For example if your Hotmail email is [email protected] then setup an alias [email protected]
If that fails, test in a new User.
Create a new User in System Preferences.
Log into your new User.
You can skip the Apple ID setup unless you are testing iCloud.
Select Don't Sign in > Continue > Skip
Open Mail and enter your Hotmail account.
Does the problem go away?

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Using OS 10.9.1 now, but this behavior is for previous OS versions, as well.
I use Mail with Yahoo IMAP, and it downloads all messages to my hard drive. Can I set it not to do that? The preferenences are set to " Check for new messages manually" and have been for years, but it still downloads every message. Is the "checking" process independent of the downloading of messages? I kind of thought I could control these two processes. In other words, can I set Mail to download only the messages that are less than one year old or to show the messages, but not download them? I know I can use the web to view without downloading, but here in China, the web is sometimes "off" for Yahoo, while a mail client can still show Yahoo email, so it is often necessary to use the Mail app to see email. I just don't need them saved to my hard drive.

I was searching to see if Apple Mail and Yahoo Imap downloads everything when I came across your post! While I like that, it would be good if someone could tell us where the setting/option is for it.
Perhaps in Yahoo itself? Nah! That doesn't make sense. It should be on the client side (if I have my terminology correct!)

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My mail programme preferences are set to download manually.
In advanced, the account is not 'included in automatically checking for new mail'
I use scripts to send mails after certain tasks are ready. Sometimes (randomly) mail all of a sudden downloads all mail.
Anybody know what could cause this?
How to stop it as I do not want it to download mail at all as I use an other programme for reading and writing mail.

Hi Mulder
What you're describing doesn't make sense. Mail doesn't download mail if it's set to wait for a manual initiation.
I know however...
But once that is check is initiated, any and all waiting mail will be downloaded.
I know.
I've never heard of this happening before, to anyone. Unless your preferences are corrupted, which there's no indication of at this point, something else is triggering Mail to check for new email.
I never heard either, hence posting
But if you're using some other program for sending and receiving email, why would you have that account setup in Mail, as that would defeat the purpose of supposedly using that other program. If you really want to eliminate the possibility of this happening, you would need to delete that account in Mail, and backup the mail for that account before you delete it.
complex issue, but rather keep both programmes.
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How to stop Mail form downloading automatically

My mail programme preferences are set to download manually. I use scripts to send mails after certain tasks are ready. Sometimes (randomly) mail all of a sudden downloads all mail.
Anybody know what could cause this? How to stop it as I do not want it to download at all.

Thanks haroldo1
haroldo1 wrote:
Verify that Mail/Preferences/General Check for New Mail is set to Manually.
It so is!
Just a guess, you could also eliminate the incoming mail server information and eliminate it's ability to download (...I do not want it to download at all...).
If I do that (and no it never needs to download only upload) Mail flips out as it wants the information. I tried this.

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