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

Hi All

Even if the 'Connected Accounts' have been depricated, we still need the page Syn Email for

1. To select the default Outlook.com account we want to send from. Bear in mind a lot of us have multiple aliases.
2. Default ROM account
3. Also to allow us set the default email address we want our emails to show.

So irrespective of anything else, we still need to access theses settings for Outlook's sake!

Well, I may have found a source for this myself:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot-connected-accounts-in-outlook-com-a99a1f0b-700d-4b3b-8f9a-28d463ff07f2

"**Important:**Microsoft removed the ability to connect new accounts to Outlook.com on May 10, 2021. Accounts that were connected before May 10, 2021, will continue to sync as usual. To see your all your email accounts, calendars, and contacts in a combined inbox, download Outlook for iOS or Outlook for Android."

Apparently this very important facility was removed from Outlook 365 in 2018.

The simplest alternative is to use Forward from the connected account.

Why does the sync pane on Outlook.com say "try again later"?

What kind of misleading nonsense is that?

Why does the sync pane not say that this facility has been stopped?

Hey, to be honest with you l dont l dont know what to say to you because the source of all this was caused by you meaning Microsoft, by all the time changing my password to the extent where l coud not remember which one l had used. Thus, to say l have no idea what happened and how to reverse it. I kindly request you to do what you can to do under the users guidelines to help me and restore *** Email address is removed for privacy ***

I am not clear which email service you want to make your primary account, so I will cover both.

1. Make Gmail your primary, ie it will retrieve email from your other accounts.

In Gmail. select Quick Settings, then all Settings, then Forwarding and IMAP/POP and set up the accounts you want to retrieve

That works fine.

2. Outlook on the web (outlook.com) as primary

As in my earlier post, this is no longer available despite the idiotic message "Try again later" on the sync page.

See the Microsoft web page I reference i my earlier post.

Thank you so much.

The Email account I am trying to sync with Outlook is hosted by a local university.

I appreciate your assistance.