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applelover4u

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I have Airmail installed and it downloaded all of my mail and is saving it locally thus taking up space. How can i change this setting. I already went to more and unchecked the server sync but mail is still saved..

Or how can i limit the downloading. Looks like an airmail rep told me the only thing to do is limit downloading

Update: This is what a rep told me to limit downloading

Going through the account settings (Preferences > Select the account > More) you can limit the amount to download based on time, so instead of downloading ALL emails locally it will only do a batch from the past month etc.
 
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In Airmail Preferences for each account you can uncheck the "download message bodies" and "download attachments", both are on the "More" tab in each accounts settings.

Remember the main purpose of a mail client is to enable offline access, hence they store mail locally to enable that. For truly zero space used, use you mail provider's webmail service.
 
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