Outlook: Only download mails from the last few weeks

Question

I'd like Outlook to download the last recent mails. The only setting I can find is the one to enable the Exchange-Cache mode, but I'm worried that this will download my whole mailbox (which is quite big).

Is there anyway I can tell Outlook to only download the mails from the last few weeks, so it performs well (working full online seems to be quite slow).

Solution

If you're not in Cached Mode, then you're not downloading any email to the client computer, you're just seeing it 'live' from the server, which is most likely why it seems slow.

Cached Mode helps this by eliminating the need to go back to the server every time you click on an email (or alike).

When you turn Cache Mode on, it presents a slider that allows you to set a maximum age for the email that's cached (downloaded to the client) to be available offline.

Comments

[hardikudeshi]

Is this feature specific to outlook 2013? I've always wanted this feature but cannot find it in outlook 2010.