
The Inbox does get high priority so it will generally sync before other folders that also need to sync.Įxchange likes folders to not exceed 2GB.Īnyone having experience with the new Outlook for Mac, especially connected to an Exchange server. Since Outlook has a limit on how many folders can be synced at a time, there can be a queue of folders waiting. Outlook checks the server for updates every minute, any folder that has updates will subsequently be synced. Due to the design of Outlook's sync engine (and how exchange works), you will see the 512 newest messages in a folder at the initial start of sync then the rest of the folder's contents will be back filled before you see any mail that arrives after this point. Do NOT make subfolders under the Inbox.Īny folder with more than a few thousand messages is going to take some time to fully come down when you first sync your account. (this is the number one cause of problems with sync). The Inbox syncs more frequently than any other and should be kept as clean as possible.
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She needs to archive messages to subfolders to reduce the number of messages in the Inbox. It's the number of messages in the Inbox that is the problem. Regardless, you will have similar issues with Outlook.

If you visit the Microsoft forums, you'll find lots of issues with Outlook 2016. I support Microsoft Outlook and while it's a more robust Exchange client than Apple Mail, It's also missing a lot of features you get in Mail.
