How to Reduce Frequency of Email Checks in Different Email Clients
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You can find instructions on how to adjust the frequency of email checks based on the specific email client you are using:
- Open your Outlook application.
- Press the Ctrl + Alt + S keyboard shortcut (Note: This works for all Microsoft Outlook versions except for Microsoft Outlook for OS X).
- Set how often you want Outlook to check emails in the "Schedule an automatic send/receive every X minutes" line.
- Close the window to save your settings.
- Open Outlook.
- Go to the Tools menu.
- Click on the Accounts button.
- Click on the Advanced button in the window that appears.
- Locate the "Sync all IMAP folders every X minutes" line in the pop-up window.
- Set how often Outlook will check emails for the email account.
- Click OK.
- Click on the hamburger button in Thunderbird.
- Navigate to the Options menu.
- Select the Account Settings option in the new menu window that pops up.
- Select the Server Settings menu in the pop-up window.
- Locate the "Check for new messages every X minutes" line in the Server Settings section.
- Set how often Thunderbird should check emails for the email account.
- Click OK.
- Go to the Mail menu in Apple Mail.
- Select the Preferences option.
- Select the General tab in the pop-up window.
- Locate the "Check for new messages" line.
- Click on the drop-down menu.
- Select the needed frequency.
- Click the red Close button and save changes.
- Go to the Settings menu in your iPhone/iPad.
- Navigate to the Mail, Contacts, Calendars menu.
- Locate the Fetch New Data menu.
- In this menu, you can select the Push option at the top. This option allows the email client to push new emails to your iPhone/iPad from the server when possible. To set a particular email check interval, you need to turn off this option and navigate down this menu.
- There, you can see the Fetch section with several options. Select the needed email check frequency interval by placing a check mark there.
- Tap on the hamburger button in your Android Google email client.
- Select the Settings menu in the pop-up window.
- Locate the email account for which you need to edit the frequency of email checks and click on it in the window that appears.
- Select the Sync frequency menu.
- Set how often the Google email client will check emails for the email account in the pop-up window that appears.
- Tap on the hamburger button in your Android email client.
- Select the Manage Accounts option in the menu that appears.
- Select the account for which you need to adjust the frequency of email checks.
- Select the Sync settings menu.
- Go to the Sync schedule menu.
- Click on the Set sync schedule menu.
- Set how often the email client will check emails for the email account in the pop-up window that appears. If you select the Push option, the email client will push new emails to your phone from the server when possible. To set a particular email check interval, select another option.
