Mail Days to Sync - No Limit

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Mail Days to Sync - No Limit

Hello there,

I've been using my iPad for light work email and related work tasks... and word quickly spread about my iPad, and others are starting to show interest purely for work use.

The question is... one of our chaps has a huge exchange mailbox (8gb).. and while tinkering in the mail settings, i found an option called Mail Days to Sync, and saw the option of 'no limit'

So, if our 8gb guy turns on 'no limit' will the iPad really cache 8gb of mail in the same way that outlook does (Outlook Cached Mode)?

Or is 'no limit' actually really limited to something? (I understand 8gb mailbox isn't ideal... and not recommended.

Mac Mini Late 2009 // 2.53GHz // 4gb // 500gb /// iPhone 3GS 32gb, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Jun 22, 2010 3:39 AM

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gazzrenn Author

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Jun 30, 2010 3:48 AM in response to gazzrenn

Crikey... nobody?

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SirBlue

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Jun 30, 2010 7:03 AM in response to gazzrenn

I tried this with my iPad and smaller Exchange Mailbox. No Limit means No Limit. However, there appears to be a caveat to it. It does not download the messages until you open the folder on the iPad. So if you open the Inbox, it downloads all the messages in there. When you open another folder, it shows messages in accordance to the settings.

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Jun 30, 2010 7:39 AM in response to SirBlue

I have tried to find this setting, please could you help?

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Mykll0

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Jun 30, 2010 8:40 AM in response to Robtsymes

There are a few options.

Settings
Mail, Contacts, Calendars
Mail Section
Show -- Set 25, 50, 75, 100 or 200 Recent Messages.

Using my Exchange account as an example:
Settings
Mail, Contacts, Calendars
Accounts Section
Go into Exchange account
Turn on Mail, and Calendars and Contacts if you want.
Mail Days to Sync -- Set No Limit, 1 Day, 3 Days, 1 Week, 2 Weeks, 1 Month
Mail Folders to Push -- Select specific folders you want to auto-sync.

Under the previous Accounts section, also enable Push if you want, and can set up Fetch as well.

Any combo of the above can provide various results.

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gazzrenn Author

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Jul 6, 2010 1:07 AM in response to SirBlue

Thanks SirBlue,

Thats kind of what i'd figured out.... 🙂

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Jan 12, 2011 6:58 PM in response to gazzrenn

This is fixed I had a customer with 600+ folders in their Mailbox
Go into the iphone select the Exchange account on the iphone.
Change the Mail Days to sync to -No limit
Change the folders to Push to -Inbox +1
Syncs fine after that.
Otherwise you wait many many hours and most of the time it just doesn't sync
will sync the Fodlers and not the items in them nor the inbox.

Saves hours of time in reorganizing Mailbox structures!

Brett Douglass
Evolution IT PTY LTD
Director

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yeemee

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Mar 10, 2013 4:59 AM in response to Brett Douglass

I kind of just figured out what that function is for.

If say you set "Mail days to sync" to 3 days, your mailbox will only keep 3 days worth of emails. Anything older than that will not be shown. But you can still "search" for that particular mail by using the "Search all inboxes" function.

thanks.

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