Syncing limit for Mail on Mac

I am a new Apple user and decided to buy a Macbook Air as a secondary computer I can haul around to work and school. I have a quick question regarding the Mail application. My primary email is a gmail account, and whenever I set it up, it tries to sync every message I have saved on the server. As a result, is there a way to limit the Mail app to only sync the past 30 days worth of mail or something of that nature? I know I can do this on the iPhone and have it show only the 50 most recent messages, so I was wondering if it was possible to do it on a Macbook as well.
Thanks in advance!

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