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# How to set polling interval for mail accounts manually
## Problem
Since 9.0.0, the polling interval for the Mail Accounts can be set in Jira, on the accounts configuration page.
[Incoming Mail Accounts](/email-this-issue/email-this-issue-for-jira-server-data-center/documentation/administration/incoming-mail-connections.md) are used for to polling mailboxes for new emails to be processed by the [Next Generation Mail Handler](/email-this-issue/email-this-issue-for-jira-server-data-center/documentation/incoming-emails/next-generation-mail-handlers.md). By default, Mail Accounts poll the mailboxes every minute.
The problem is that Microsoft 365 limitations are sometimes imposed on applications accessing mail accounts too often and returns throttling errors.
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**Note**: This article is about changing the polling interval manually. Since the writing of this article this fix has been released.
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## Solution
Incoming Mail Accounts are polling mailboxes periodically, this is triggered by a scheduled job.
These jobs cannot be configured via the Jira UI but can be seen in `JIRA_URL/secure/admin/SchedulerAdmin.jspa`
The Job in question is called `incomingMailAccountsJobRunner`. Jira does not allow to change the `Schedule` attribute on the UI, however it can be done in the database.
1\. Open the Jira database in a database client app.
2\. Check the content of the table called `clusteredjob`.
3\. Find the record whose `job_id` field has the value: `incomingMailAccountsJobRunner`. A sample SQL SELECT for PostgreSQL is shown here:
```
SELECT * FROM public.clusteredjob WHERE job_id='incomingMailAccountsJobRunner'
```
4\. Update this record by changing the column `cron_expression` to `0 */5 * * * ?` including the tailing question mark as shown below:
5\. Save the changes in the table, and after 1-2 minutes, you can verify that the scheduled job is running in periods of 5 minutes using the Jira administration screen shown above.
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**Note**: This is a temporary workaround until we release the feature to set intervals manually from the app’s administration screen.
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**Important**: This change in the database does not survive Jira restarts. You need to apply it after a restart.
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