Setting download limits in Mail

I recently just got a new MacBook Pro and I just set up the mail application with my gmail and a school mail account. Both accounts are IMAP, if thats important. Anyway, I just want to set a download limit and have it so Mail only downloads the past 25 or so e-mails and only new emails from now on. It been connecting and trying to download thousands of e-mails and its just wasting disk drive space. Can anyone tell me how to set this up? Thanks!

You use the appropriate domain names of your ISP's mail servers. For a .Mac account the incoming server is mail.mac.com and the outgoing server is smtp.mac.com. However, if you set up a .Mac account normally these are provided automatically by Mail.
If you don't know your ISP's mail servers and are unable to locate them on their web site, then call their tech support for assistance.

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