How to Change Mailbox Sync Settings for Mail app in Windows 10
The Mail and Calendar apps included with Windows 10 help you stay up to date on your email, manage your schedule and stay in touch with people you care about the most. Designed for both work and home, these apps help you communicate quickly and focus on what’s important across all your accounts. Supports Office 365, Exchange, Outlook.com, Gmail, Yahoo! and other popular accounts.
You can change your mailbox sync settings for how often you want to download new email content, and how far back you want to download old email from your email server per account in the Mail app.
This tutorial will show you how to change the mailbox sync settings per account in your Mail app in Windows 10.
Here's How:
1 Open the Mail app.
2 Click/tap on the Settings button at the bottom of the left pane, and click/tap on Manage Accounts in the Settings flyout. (see screenshot below)
3 Click/tap on the account you want to change mailbox sync settings for. (see screenshot below)
4 Click/tap on Change mailbox sync settings. (see screenshot below)
5 Select how often to download new content, and select how far back to download email from on the server, turn on or off Email, Calendar, and/or Contacts under Sync options for what you want, and click/tap on Done. (see screenshot below)
6 Click/tap on Save to apply. (see screenshot below)
That's it,
Shawn
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