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Help Mail App ignores 'number of e-mails to show' and 'Days to sync e-mail'

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I am using the stock Mail app to access mails on LG-D620 with Android 4.2.2.
I have a hotmail account set up (POP) and three mail accounts with ActiveSync. The Mail app seems to ignore all the limits I have set to downloading/syncing e-mails. That is: I don't see the last 100 messages, but ALL since I set-up the e-mail account. The same accounts for the Active Sync accounts that have a one week limit set, but show ALL e-mails since creation of the account.
Of course, storage is getting low now...

How do I get Mail to implement the set limits?
 
Anybody has a solution for this?

Update: it seems that the 100 e-mail limit I set on the POP account is taken into account, but for the ActiveSync e-mail accounts, I still see all e-mails.
Mail uses a ridiculous amount of space (2 GB), considering the number of e-mails kept.
 
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The stock email app doesn't support Active Sync partly because Microsoft charges a fee for it. You need to install one of the email clients that have full Active Sync support. Nine and Mail Wise are a couple of examples, but I don't think they support POP3. There's others, maybe you can find one that supports both AS and POP3 . Search for Active Sync in the Play store.
 
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Thanx, currently trying 'Type Mail' (free app). 'Enhanced mail' and 'Touchdown' also seem to be able to handle both (paid versions).
 
Type Mail doesn't support Active Sync. Enhanced Email doesn't support Active Sync either. Plus EE was bought by Boxer (an iOS email client) about a year agp and although still available it's no longer developed and tech support is minimal at best now. IOW EE is basically dead. Likely you're wasting your time on these.

Touchdown is the only one you mentioned that actually supports Active Sync. I've never used it but I downloaded the user guide and skimmed through it and as far as I can tell it doesn't support POP3. The Play store description doesn't mention POP3 either.

It appears that to get an all-in-one solution you need to keep looking.
 
Crashdamage said:
Type Mail doesn't support Active Sync.
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I've set up all my e-mail accounts. I had the choice to select 'Exchange' in set-up and even though that's not ActiveSync, it instantly recognized all necessary e-mail settings. For now, it looks like it works, my e-mails are being synced. But I'll have to see what happens next...
 
If Type Mail does what you need without actual Active Sync support, you might like AquaMail even more. Supports Exchange via IMAP or EWS including contacts, Office 365 and Exchange Online, calendars, etc. Pretty much does everything except true Active Sync.

AquaMail has configuration options out the wazoo and has a lot of little tricks to make handling email quick and easy. Supports every ordinary email service I've ever seen. Very fast, rock-stable, excellent support via built-in help, a user forum monitored by the developer or email. Under constant development and updating.

I've tried a lot of email clients and AquaMail is my default choice for all of our devices.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kman.AquaMail
 
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