Most people I know that use mail like you describe (keep all of it all the time) choose to not show All Mail in IMAP and then just clean their inbox when the volume becomes unwieldy. Exchange has a setting to determine a time range of mail to sync, but google and IMAP do not appear to have that feature. Since that's how the mail client was designed and codes, you will need to go to gmail's web interface and hide some of the folders from IMAP access to prevent the client, macOS mail.app, from ever seeing the messages. You can opt in to that from the Apple menu - about this Mac - storage - manage, but it seems to only be offered when you have significant storage burden from Mail and/or specific mail server configurations. The macOS 10.12 mail has a setting to optimize mail storage that might store header information for all mails, but not download the body and attachments of older emails. And only AppleCare products give you one-stop service and support from Apple experts, so most issues can be resolved in a single call. Because Apple makes the hardware, the operating system, and many applications, Apple products are truly integrated systems. Apple's mail on 10.11 and older will download all the mail that the server tells it about. Service and support from the people who know your Apple products best.
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