Not letting outlook (2003) download (pop3) certain emails from gmail?

[gaikokujinkyofusho]

I use gmail via the web and via outlook about the same amount but when
I do it via outlook it is usually at those times of low bandwidth
(dial-up modem) so I really only want to download the most important
emails. I subscribe to a few different mailing lists and I usually
look over those when I am accessing gmail via the website but I don't
want to waste precious bandwidth/time downloading these mailing list
emails. Is there a way I can either get gmail to prevent outlook from
downloading those emails or maybe a way I can tell outlook to not
download certain emails?

With outlook the filters only seem to work *after* the email has been
downloaded which would defeat the purpose. The only thing in gmail
that has worked so far (and it is not a reasonable solution) is
filtering those list emails to the trash (where gmail doesn't download
from) but that's not quite what I am looking for.

If anyone has any idea how to do this I'd love the help!

Cheers

-Gaiko

 

[Pat Willener]

What I would try in your case is accessing your Gmail account using
IMAP. You have to set it up on your Gmail profile page first, then
configure Outlook to set up an IMAP account instead of POP3 (using the
Mail applet in Control Panel; don't open Outlook until both procedures
are complete).

IMAP will only download the headers instead of the whole message.

 

[VanguardLH]

I use gmail via the web and via outlook about the same amount but when
I do it via outlook it is usually at those times of low bandwidth
(dial-up modem) so I really only want to download the most important
emails. I subscribe to a few different mailing lists and I usually
look over those when I am accessing gmail via the website but I don't
want to waste precious bandwidth/time downloading these mailing list
emails. Is there a way I can either get gmail to prevent outlook from
downloading those emails or maybe a way I can tell outlook to not
download certain emails?

With outlook the filters only seem to work *after* the email has been
downloaded which would defeat the purpose. The only thing in gmail
that has worked so far (and it is not a reasonable solution) is
filtering those list emails to the trash (where gmail doesn't download
from) but that's not quite what I am looking for.

If anyone has any idea how to do this I'd love the help!

Tools -> Send and Receive Settings -> Define Send and Receive Settings,
select group, Edit, enable the option to NOT download the bodies of
e-mails that exceed whatever size you specify. That is the menu
navigation for OL2002. It may be different for OL2003. Only e-mails
smaller than that size will get downloaded. E-mails that size or larger
will only get their headers downloaded. For the rest, you will have to
mark the message and then manually download them.

You mark the header the headers for the e-mails that you want to
download (for messages not already downloaded) by using the Tools ->
Send and Receive -> Work with Headers -> Mark/Unmark menu. If and when
you want to download the oversized e-mails to Outlook, use the Tools ->
Send and Receive -> Work with Headers -> Process Marked Headers From
menu. You'll want to add the Header Status column to your view so you
can see the messages that you have marked for manual download. You'll
probably also want to customize the toolbar to include buttons for
Mark/Unmark Messages (or Mark to Download Messages) and Download Headers
From.

Digging around inside Outlook finds all sorts of configuration options.