New Post: Is there any way to get a set amount of messages on the server?

You can use ProcessHeader() instead, which is a lighter-weight call to retrieve basic information (such as the sent and received timestamps) about the message. However, (to the best of my knowledge) Pavel is in the process of updating the APIs so we don't have to call ProcessHeader() any more. He will release this in the next official version due out shortly.

--Ravi