IMAP Mail question (d/l to MacPro but not MBP)?

i have a ton of email accounts and have a really dumb question.
i am accessing all of these accounts via IMAP on my Mac Pro my MacBook Pro and my iPhone. this is great since i can delete emails from my Mac Pro where i work a lot of the time and they will no longer clutter up my mail on my other devices. it obviously has other benefits in that i can see it all the same on all devices.
i am wondering if there is a setting in Mail that downloads the email to my LOCAL HARD DRIVE and if so if i can check this for the Mac Pro but not for the MacBook Pro. i have 2 TB HD's on the Mac Pro but the laptop is running out of space with just 250 GB.
i know this database is a big honking spacehog so i just got to thinking and wanted to ask.
also, does anyone know if having Thunderbird email client and/or Sparrow email client on both of these computers causes large databases for each of these software programs as well? if so i should probably also delete all of this off the laptop.
TIA

Yes.
In Mail->Preferences->Accounts, select the IMAP account you're concerned with. In the advanced tab, there is a "keep copies of messages for online viewing" setting. Choose "All messages and their attachments" on your Mac Pro, and choose something else that's a better fit in the list on your MacBook Pro.
Also, yes, every IMAP client has its own local database.

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