Question about poping mail from gmail

I'm trying to find out how to restrict the mail that is downloaded from a new gmail account when it first connects to Mac Mail.
If I connect my Mac Mail client to pop from a new Gmail account, will all of the mail in the account be downloaded?   I have a new Gmail account where I only want to download a portion of the mail in the account.  Will I need to delete the Gmail mail that I don't want downloaded?
Thanks.

Whatever is is the inbox of a POP account on the server will download to any computer with that account as new if it hasn't been downloaded and logged into the database of the computer. If you don't want messages to download from the server, they will need to be removed from the inbox there. Create another mailbox at the gmail site and move the messages there. Leave only the ones you want downloaded to the computer in the inbox.

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