How to fetch inbox for a newly mutt client (gmail account)

Hi, I installed mutt of Fedora 18 and configured muttrc to my gmail account; I am able to send messages properly. However, the inbox is almost empty (5 messages) and I want to fetch previous messages (let's say 1000 or 2000) from my inbox of the gmail account How can I achieve this ? rgs Kevin

mutt line length when saving patches (created by git)

Hi, I am subscribed to a Linux kernel mailing list and I read mails via mutt. When I try to start mutt and then save messages of patches and then I try to apply them, I encounter problems. The problems are due to that there are many lines in the patch that mutt saved, which have wrap in something