Making Mail notifications work consistently

Does anyone know the minimum I need to have set to "on" to get mail notifications to work consistently with action center? Is it possible? Yesterday I got it working pretty consistently and I thought great but today it seems to work only occasionally. I've read this is common.

I have a live and outlook email account. I have them set up on the mail app and both are set to allow a banner notification in the settings on the mail app. I also have in Settings/System/Notifications and Actions/Show notifications from these apps/Mail set to ON banners and sound.

I also have the Mail app as the default.

What else beside this in Settings/System and Settings/Privacy do i need enabled to get Mail notifications to work reliably?

I have Thunderbird which gives me notifications but I don't like to leave it on and would like it if the notifications could work.

Hello Tom, :)

It sounds like you have it covered, but you might double check using the tutorial to make sure you got it all.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...dows-10-a.html

In addition, double check your sync settings in the Mail app to make sure that it's downloading new content (emails) as often as you wanted.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/6...dows-10-a.html

One thing I did not do is to turn on mail in background apps because it is not listed there.
Is there anyway to force it to get listed? Thanks.

I do have calendar there and I keep that "on" since it seems they work together but no Mail app is listed.

Yeah, the Mail app keeps being added and restore to Background Apps as a separate app per build lately. The Calendar is indeed part of the Mail app, so hopefully it includes both.

Great news.

It's never consistent for me either.