New Mac, Mail Troubles

Just bought a new Mac and set up the mail application with my Gmail account. The only problem is, it's attempting to download every single email I've ever received. Needless to say I do NOT want this. How to I do so?
Also, I should note that I also have an older Mac which I sync with using MobileME. I have already specified that I wanted Mail accounts to sync.

Obviously your Gmail account is being accessed as IMAP, and in the Mail Preferences/Accounts/Advanced you have likely selected to keep copies of all messages and their attachments for Offline Viewing? Thus, since with IMAP the Inbox and Sent reside on the server (and thus contain all the messages) this setting will cause Mail to download them all the keep the copies. Set this up to not keep copies, and only the list of the messages will be downloaded.
Also you can choose to not subscribe to the All Mail folder on the Gmail server. If not familiar with how to do this, do a Google search with Gmail and Advanced IMAP Controls. To enable this particular exclusion, sign on to your Gmail account, click on Settings, then on Labs, and enable advanced IMAP control. Once that is done, you can then click on Labels tab in Settings and make some selections about excluding certain folders.
The MobileMe sync feature applies only to account setup info, addressbooks, and not messages. With IMAP accounts it is their nature to sync to each computer that accesses them, while with POP, the sync feature will not sync the messages themselves.
Ernie

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