Newbie Getmail question

Hi,

I just started using getmail. I want to use it in conjunction with Neomutt. I have not removed any email from my server since October of last year. I set up my getmailrc like this:

[retriever]
type = SimplePOP3SSLRetriever
server = pop.verizon.net
port = 995
username = [email protected]
password = XXXXXXXX
         
[destination]
type = Maildir
path = ~/mail/

[options]    
read_all = false
delete = true
message_log = ~/.getmail/log-russurquhart1

It gets about 1000 emails pulled down before I start getting:

Retrieval error: server for SimplePOP3SSLRetriever:[email protected]@pop.verizon.net:995 is broken; offered message AMT226ougKx9W+HmJgSIKAkS7K0 but failed to provide it.  Please notify the administrator of the server.  Skipping message…

I get a bunch of those until I get:

getmailrc: socket error ([Errno 32] Broken pipe)
  1000 messages (54619353 bytes) retrieved, 0 skipped

And it stops.

Can I tell it to disregard/delete those past mails and start getting them from this month, for example? (I had previously loaded all my old email to the Apple mail application, and this is how I am currently getting my email, but would like to go back to Neomutt using getmail to get my mail.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Russ