Microsoft Outlook 2010 help

[enjoylife1788]

Hey guys,

I am planning to use MS Outlook 2010 for my emails. Uptil now i was strictly using web. I wanna use as an IMAP option.

The issue is that my GMAIL email account is almost 5 years old. So if i use IMAP it will download all the messages right from start. This is what i don't want. I do have limited bandwidth on my wifi ( Yes, it does happen in few parts of the world) . So all i want is outlook to download only 1 month old emails or even 6 months also i don't mind. and then just download the new ones as they arrive. Let the emails older than 1 month or 6 months remain the way they are.

Is there any option to do so?

 

[TarekElsakka]

I really am interested in an answer to that question to. Both Outlook and Mail (Mac application) seem to download all the messages which not only consume a lot of bandwidth but also take forever.

 

[verwon]

I had the same problem with it and never could get it to change how many it downloaded. Took a long time with about 17,000 emails in the one folder.

 

[enjoylife1788]

I had the same problem with it and never could get it to change how many it downloaded. Took a long time with about 17,000 emails in the one folder.

With all of you reporting negatively, I guess there is no way around it. Unfortunately, m gonna stick to web in that case.

 

[TarekElsakka]

I dug up an article that may help you. Please give it a try and report back:

http://email.about.com/od/outlooktips/qt/Download_Only_the_Headers_for_Large_Messages_in_Outlook.htm

 

[TarekElsakka]

That's how you do it on MS Outlook 2010, I believe.

 

[enjoylife1788]

That's how you do it on MS Outlook 2010, I believe.

Thank u so much for sharing. I guess if there is no option for time duration, then this is the best option available.

Also, Downloading only headers shouldn't be a big deal.

Thanks