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Settings Fun

Mail is teeming with preferences worth examining—and a few worth

changing. To see them, hit Settings ( ). On the Settings panel (Figure 10-
8), pay a visit to these tabs:

Manage Accounts

On this panel, you see a simple list of the email accounts you’ve set up:
Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, or whatever. Choose the one you want to open its
settings box. You can choose “Add account” here, too, as described on

“Setting Up”.

Note
Of course, Mail displays only email. If you turn on Contacts and Calendar for one of your
accounts, then your lists of names and appointments show up elsewhere in Windows—namely, in
the People and Calendar apps. Handily enough, Mail includes a Calendar button at lower left, for
easy app hopping.

The settings available for each account type are different. But “Change
mailbox sync settings” is always available.

Here’s where you find settings like these:

Change mailbox sync settings. How often do you want Mail to

check for new messages? Usually, “As items arrive” is what you
want. Some account types offer only “Every 15 minutes,” “Every
30 minutes,” and so on. (If you choose Manually, then Mail never

checks unless you hit the Sync button.)

“Download email from” specifies how far back you want your mail
collection collected. (If you have a limited-storage device like a

phone or a tablet, you might not want your whole lifetime of mail
stored on it. “The last 3 months” might be a good choice.)