Outlook.com "Sync Email" settings - "Unable to load these settings. Please try again later."

I have been having the same problem for about 2 weeks on all of my devices when I try to access 365. I go to settings and got to Mail and then click on Sync email and all I get is Unable to load these settings. Please try again later. I have been using 365 on all my devices for a few years and have never had this problem

Same problem here started 3/9/2022 for me in the United States. Unable to load these settings message and I can send messages from my connected account but it won't retrieve them anymore.

For decades I have used the various Microsoft email programs Live, Hotmail, Outlook, Outlook on Web, Outlook on IOS, Mail App and so on and they continue to get worse and constantly break what does work. A decade ago you could create rules for POP emails coming in but then they broke that. The connected accounts is what kept me on the Microsoft email platform because I could get emails from multiple accounts into 1 inbox. It worked decent until Microsoft broke it.

Now they want you to add another account into the Mail app in Windows 10 which honestly sucks. I have decades of emails and such in folders under my "outlook" account but now my work account is going to be a different folder structure which I have to recreate and which won't have all of the legacy emails.

Plus I want one SINGLE unified Inbox. I don't want to have to switch between different accounts to see what all came in. This is how Outlook.com worked beautifully with Connected Accounts.

At lease Apple Mail in the iPhone is smart enough to have an All Inbox option even though they have different accounts listed also.

I don't see how Microsoft can screw things up so bad. I've written email programs to fetch data from POP and IMAP accounts and it's not rocket science. How anyone could think that removing connected accounts was a good idea I have no clue.

Sad that Microsoft has lost all common sense in their product development over the last 20 years.

Having the exact same problem after i relocated to another country,
unable to send emails and reply to emails originating from another country and also unable to access the "sync settings",
contacted microsoft twice only to receive the same **** bot response about how they're aware the server has an issue but its been almost two weeks and still nothing!!
this is freaking ridiculous and its interfering with my freelance work where all my contacts are and work emails are tied to this account!

Add me to the pile of bewildered people that this feature is broken. Under the hood, the service is throwing a "500" error which should be alerting their system admins. Sad no Microsoft response.

Unfortunately the idea that “unable to load” is caused by a server error and we should try again in a day does not work. I am on day ten or so of this error.

And its not the discontinued feature causing it..its not gmail, and the error just started recently.

I also was directed by an outlook system email to go to this setting to update a connection that is failing. Its failing because the email i was syncing to has been terminated (i know this…i dont need it anymore). But i cant fix it and now get the system email directing me to the sync Outlook setting that doesnt load every day!