How To Refresh Outlook Mail Inbox [2 Methods]

Outlook is one of the popular email client from microsoft. You can use this outlook email client in your windows pc like gmail and yahoo mail. But all outlook users facing some issues while using outlook email. One of the commonly faced issue is refreshing.

Unlike web based email services like gmail and yahoo, Outlook takes long time to show recently received messages. When you are online and waiting for message from someone, Then outlook doesn't shows you messages which is received just now.

So, many outlook users looking for how to refresh outlook mail inbox to view messages which is currently received.

Here in this post am gonna share you this 2 methods with brief tutorial for solve this outlook refresh problem. Unlike web version, You can't refresh outlook using any F5 buttons, You have to follow some steps given below.

You can refresh your inbox as when you need to view recently received messages, Or you can just setup auto refresh outlook inbox to update email inbox at any time.

Both are easy to follow and setup with outlook mail. So follow below steps carefully and refresh outlook inbox as per your requirements.

How To Auto Refresh Outlook Email Inbox :

Open outlook and click on Send/Receive tab in tools. You will get some additional options to customize outlook inbox send and receive settings.

Now click on Send/Receive folders section and you will get popup like below. Here you will get a process which is searching for recently received messages.

Wait few minutes and your outlook inbox will update. This takes some couple of minutes as per your connection speed. Once your inbox updated successfully by following this method, You can view all recently received messages without waiting long.

If you want to setup auto refresh in your outlook, Then just follow the second method.

How To Setup Auto Refresh In Outlook :

This is one of the easy and simple method to get all latest messages in outlook mail without any waiting time.

Inbox will automatically update at every particular time as per your wish. Basically this is a customization tip for update your email inbox in short time.

Open Send/Receive tab and click on Send/Receive Groups. Here you will get drop down menu with the Define Send/Receive Groups option.

Just click on it and navigate to All account section. Now open Schedule an Automatic Send / Receive every. Here it shows the time of outlook auto update.

Now setup the interval time as lower like 10 minutes from 30 minutes. Finally your outlook inbox update every 10 minutes. That means, you don't want to wait longer or update inbox automatically like above method.

Choose only minimum 10 minutes as update interval. Because less than 10 minute setup will make your inbox filled up with duplicate entries. So make sure you are choosing 10 minutes as your schedule time in settings and save it.

Conclusion :

Outlook mail is providing high quality email services with variety of features. But still peoples getting some small issues like refreshing outlook inbox. So am sharing this tutorial for outlook beginners to refresh outlook mail box.

Am sure these tips will help you in all outlook versions. Follow all given step by step tutorial and comment here if you have any doubts and questions related this post.