Why is the Windows 10 Mail app so slow?

Josbeph said:

Windows Live Mail is the best free one, or if you have a subscription to Office (any version and any year) use Office Outlook. I use Microsoft Office Outlook 2016. Probably the best behind Office 2007 ��

Thanks for the suggestions. I tried Office Outlook, but it doesn't actively sync with Google calendar. You can only import a static snapshot of the calendar. I did some research and there are some unnatural acts which I think can be performed to eventually coerce Outlook to sync with it, but they sounded messy to me and I did not pursue them.

I also tried Windows Live Mail some months ago. It is a nice mail client. However, it doesn't recognize my Google contacts like Windows 10 Mail and Thunderbird do, so I abandoned it. I didn't investigate for very long if there was a way to get it to look up contacts in Google contacts. I found lots of information about how to import Google contacts into Windows, but I don't want to just import them. I want the client to be able to actively sync with Google contacts so changes to the contact list are seamless.

Sounds like back to post #1.

Stay with Thunderbird is your best option........................bar NONE.

hTconeM9user said:

Yes my G.mail is set up the same as outlook and aol.

Yes gmail imap

OK, I'm blind. I see the option now for my Gmail account, but not on my TWC account. It was at the very top of the list of choices and I just missed it. I'll give that a try. I'll set TWC to be "based on my usage". I think it will do "as items arrive" if I'm using the account regularly enough.

hTconeM9user said:

Let me know how you get on.
Hopefully it will solve your problems.
I use this Mail App all the time, that is hopefully I know how to set it up
Every time a new update is installed I always check to see if anything in Mail has been altered,

I noticed an update to Mail in the last couple of months where they introduced some useful changes that I griped about back then. They added multi-select, and the "empty this folder" command. Two things that were woefully missing previously.

Thanks for the additional tip. I'll probably start checking the update log to see what's changed. How can you tell if a particular MS Windows update changed Mail?

mbratch said:

How can you tell if a particular MS Windows update changed Mail?

If there is a significant update, there will be a blog about the changes, such as what it has fixed and what problems still persist.
If it had anything related to Mail app, it would say so. Otherwise, you will have to find out while using the Mail app.

hTconeM9user said:

Try this
Open Mail
Settings
Then Manage Accounts
Then click on the account you want
once open click
Change Mailbox Sync Settings
I have mine set to
As item arrives
Click Save
You should be good to go

I've been running with these settings for a couple of days and the behavior is greatly improved. In the few instances I do need to hit the "yin yang" icon and ask it to resync, it does seem to take forever for it to sync with an IMAP server for some reason, but livable.

mbratch said:

"As item arrives" isn't a choice in my settings. Perhaps it only applies to certain account types, but it doesn't seem to apply to Time Warner IMAP, or Gmail IMAP accounts.

Followed these and my Settings for Mail is completely blank and yet gmail updates after about 10 minutes. Not happy!