# MS Outlook Receiving Slowly On Desktop

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 16, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-outlook-receiving-slowly-on-desktop/752382 "2016-04-16T18:07:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hocus\_Pocus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/41988e/32.png) [@Hocus\_Pocus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hocus_Pocus)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-outlook-receiving-slowly-on-desktop/752382/1 "2016-04-16T18:07:39Z")

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My computer at home is currently getting emails about 5-10 minutes after my phone does. Is there a way to fix this?

Win 10  
MS Office 2010  
MAPI

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**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-outlook-receiving-slowly-on-desktop/752382/2 "2016-04-16T20:00:51Z")

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> [@Hocus\_Pocus](#):
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> My computer at home is currently getting emails about 5-10 minutes after my phone does. Is there a way to fix this?
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> Win 10  
> MS Office 2010  
> MAPI

All versions of outlook have a setting for how often it checks for new mail. Yours is probably set to 15 min.

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-outlook-receiving-slowly-on-desktop/752382/3 "2016-04-16T20:01:29Z")

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How often is Outlook on the computer set to check for mail? It may be set to check only every ten minutes or even more infrequently.

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**Author:** ![Hocus\_Pocus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/41988e/32.png) [@Hocus\_Pocus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hocus_Pocus)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-outlook-receiving-slowly-on-desktop/752382/4 "2016-04-16T20:12:56Z")

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> [@drachillix](#):
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> All versions of outlook have a setting for how often it checks for new mail. Yours is probably set to 15 min.

It was every 30 minutes.:o

Although I don’t remember ever changing it, and it used to receive almost instantly when I sent myself stuff.

Well see if this helps things out.

Thanks so far for the tips!