Importing hotmail account into Mail

I'm just wondering is it possible for the Mail app to import your hotmail account emails but from a certain date?

I set it up and it started receiving emails from like 2007. Like 7000 emails.

Is it possible to import only a certain dates worth of emails like on the iPad? Like only emails from the beginning of the year?

cheers

No???

If you haven't deleted or removed those old email messages from the Hotmail server, they're available for download.

You may be able to write your own rule in the "rules" section of Mail preferences to limit the range of dates you wish to download from the server.