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My work e-mail account gets a lot of email every day. Many of these emails are sent from automated systems. My problem is that often when I am trying double-click an email to open/read it, Outlook shifts all the mail downward in my window when a new email arrives, resulting in my double-clicking an incorrect email. Sometimes two or three times.
Is there a way of getting Outlook to not shift the mail displayed when new mail comes in? It only shifts mail in this way when it scrolled all the way at the top of my (newest) mail; it doesn't do this when I am scrolled down looking at older email.
As an alternative, is there some way of making Outlook not update instantaneously whenever it gets new mail? If it only added new mail once a minute or so I would have the rest of the minute to select mail without the mail moving around.
I am using Outlook 365 (client, not browser based) over Windows 7.
Could also view email in the reading pane rather than opening each item, depends on screen estate how viable an option this is. View ribbon > Reading Pane > Right or Bottom – Bonus – 2017-01-26T10:15:22.147