Mac email downloading all 80k exchange mail to drive, How to stop this?

[Phat^Trance]

So i added my work exchange mail to the mac email client, but noticed that my drive getting full pretty fast and saw that this is due to the mail client downloading ALL 80k email to my HDD. How can i stop the mail client to download all these emails?

 

[mystery hill]

Mail app > Accounts > Select your Exchange account > You should see a setting for the number of mail days to sync.

 

[Phat^Trance]

Mail app > Accounts > Select your Exchange account > You should see a setting for the number of mail days to sync.

Thats the thing, there are no option there that lets me select how many days to sync.

 

[mystery hill]

Who’s your Exchange mail provider?
I missed the part where you said it was a work mail account.

They will be able to configure the option on the server side.

 

[Phat^Trance]

Who’s your Exchange mail provider?
I missed the part where you said it was a work mail account.

They will be able to configure the option on the server side.

The thing is that i do have this option with other email clients, just wondering why it wont show up on apples!

 

[chrfr]

The thing is that i do have this option with other email clients, just wondering why it wont show up on apples!

Apple just doesn't provide that level of configuration on the Mac Mail client. You might try the Mac version of Outlook, which also doesn't allow for limiting the days of syncing, but does offer a "download headers only" option.

 

[mystery hill]

Exchange Mail Days to Sync

I am trying to get set-up my Exchange accounts on my iPhone X (11.4). I cannot for the life of me get the Mail Days to Sync to keep my changes. Regardless of what I choose, whenever I go back into the settings it has reverted to "1 Month". Any ideas?

forums.macrumors.com

 

[chrfr]

Exchange Mail Days to Sync

I am trying to get set-up my Exchange accounts on my iPhone X (11.4). I cannot for the life of me get the Mail Days to Sync to keep my changes. Regardless of what I choose, whenever I go back into the settings it has reverted to "1 Month". Any ideas?

forums.macrumors.com

That option isn't in the Mac Mail app. It's limited to iOS/iPadOS.

 

[mystery hill]

That option isn't in the Mac Mail app. It's limited to iOS/iPadOS.

You’re right. I didn’t see that the linked thread was discussing iOS.