I am trying to set up KMail as my mail client. I have a few email addresses, which I have set up to forward their email to a single GMail address. This GMail address, in turn, is what I am using as KMail's default account email address. This seems to work okay, with one excption; everytime I "check" my mail in KMail, it downloads 500-700 old messages. Next time I check the mail, it will download another batch. It doesn't seemt to be downloading duplicates, because I can see brand "new" messages (many of them years old) being loaded into my inbox and other folders.

However, when KMail checks mail on it's own, it seems to only download new messages (which is what I want). Why does it not do that when I manually check mail?

I am using GMail's pop server (pop.gmail.com), so I tried setting up a POP3 filter to only download mail less than 60 days old, but this seems to have no effect. I don't want to delete messages on the server, because I want the GMail account to act as a backup, at least until I get used to KMail and am sure it can make the switch.

Can you please verify that your GMail settings are configured to only provide new mail from a certain date?

Thanks, Bcooksley. Turned out I had enabled POP for all mail instead of "all mail from now on". Changed that and the monster downloads seemed to stop.

The annying thing is I do want some of the old mail (at least a month's worth or so) to be downloaded - I was hoping that enabling POP for all mail and then setting up a POP filter (to only download mail less than 30 days or so - I also set up a second POP filter to "Download Later" all main older than 30 days) would do that. Is there somthing more I should know about POP filters?

Unfortunately I do not know much about POP filters, however I do not think GMail allows you to set the time where POP access begins unless you wish to download all your mail...