Stock email app - older email search issue

[james_dean1986]

I have two email accounts linked to the stock email account. One of them I can search all of my emails, the other one I can only search what is synced/cached.

They are both hotmail accounts and I have had this issue across different phone.

Just to clarify, this is not a sync issue. Its to do with searching beyond the emails that are synced.

Thanks.

 

[B. Diddy]

Open the Email app and look at the settings for both Hotmail accounts. Are they both using the IMAP server settings, or is one using POP3 server settings?

 

[james_dean1986]

The one that doesn't allow me to search uses IMAP and the one that does uses the Exchange Server.
Not sure if it makes a difference but one is a hotmail.co.uk address and the other is a hotmail.com.

 

[B. Diddy]

For the one that uses IMAP, is there a setting for how far back to sync email?

 

[marco44]

I have the same issue. Stock email app with a Bell email address added via IMAP will not search past the emails not sync. It says searching for emails older 6 no the or 1 year but it does not see them. would love a fix to this.

 

[james_dean1986]

I can adjust the sync period on both (which is currently 2 weeks) but I don't want all my emails from the past 5 years stored on my phone, just the facility to remotely search them as I do with the other account.
Like marco44 says, it acts like it is searching for them but never returns anything. I've had this ever since I switched to android many years agos but have finally got fed up of it now and trying to find a solution