Outlook: can I sync more than 3 months but less than "forever"?

[trekster]

I'm on Gmail and Outlook allows me to keep some amount of email stored locally. I've chosen the biggest reasonable amount: 3 months. I'd like more. But not "since the beginning of time" (i.e. "any time") because I have 30+ GB of messages on my Gmail.

My previous Android phone allowed me to choose, by number of days, the amount I kept locally stored . I chose 370. (Basically a year's worth).

Am wondering why Outlook can't do the same. Surely the code needed implement a user-defined number of days for email to be stored locally is just as easy as giving the user a choice of 7 days, 2 weeks, the last month, and the last 3 months (plus "all").

 

[trekster]

Am wondering why Outlook can't do the same. Surely the code needed implement a user-defined number of days for email to be stored locally is just as easy as giving the user a choice of 7 days, 2 weeks, the last month, and the last 3 months (plus "all").

If anything, it'd be EASIER.

There's no need to give users a choice. Just ask "How many days of email do you want to keep on the phone?"