Hi Wolters, your asking for quite a bit!!!! maybe if it could read your email as well... that would be perfect.
other than deleting the files off of the gmail server, an IMAP connection might be what your looking for. IMAP adds quite a few features to a pop setup. The nice thing is that everything that is done online to the service is matched on the client. so if you move a bunch of messages into a new label on the server, that info is mirrored in your email client.
You could perform a google search online and put all of the items between a certain date into a folder/label of your choice using the manual google search features and that info would show up in your email client.
Your biggest problem is that you want to keep every message that is sent to you. One possibility is to setup your outlook to use pop and then uses MS Outlook functions to archive your messages.
just some thoughts at this point,
Jon
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Originally Posted by Wolters
Thanks Raven! That could be a solution, but what I am really after is to get an Gmail account with FEWER items in the inbox AND in the All Mail folder. Searching and loading AND working with an already very sluggish Outlook 2010 will be much faster if I could, in some way, off-load some of the e-mails that just do not have to be on-line and simmering in the inbox or All Mail folder at Gmail...
What would have been ideal, would be to have an archival function at Gmail, and from which I could download all the emails that I really do not HAVE to have online, but maybe, in the future would like to be able to retract.
So I am envisioning something that would enable me to log into my email account and specify a date span and then download all the emails within that datespan to my local hard drive. It could even be in pdf-format for easy searching, or some other file format which could later be imported into any email client should it be necessary.
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