Using older versions of Outlook for Mac in business environments
The New Outlook interface is not working any better, and it has the problem with moving items as well.
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Prior to this update, I had no issue with Outlook for Mac and Yahoo. I just updated to 16.73 (23051401). After updating, I had many problems with the Yahoo mail from within Outlook. It worked for the first 15 minutes, then got login errors and IMAP errors. I deleted the Yahoo account from Outlook and then quit. I then went back to Yahoo and got a new app password. I restarted Outlook and added the new app password obtained from Yahoo. It worked for the first 15 minutes then started to suddenly empty out all emails in all folders. Then the emails would eventually re-sync and reload from Yahoo. This now happens constantly. I tried the same uninstall reinstall process again, and nothing changed. Now also changes I make within Yahoo via my browser are not reflected in Outlook and changes made to Yahoo mail within Outlook are not saved when the emails clear, res-sync and reload, and they are not reflected in Yahoo online either. It's stuck in a loop. New emails DO ARRIVE and get added to the loop. Also there is a constant attempt to recreate the basic Yahoo folders: Drafts, Archive, Junk, Bulk. I get error messages saying can't be installed because they already exist - which they do! Why is it trying to reinstall them as if it is a new connection with Yahoo?
My setup is the following using OUTLOOK for MAC - BUT NOT NEW OUTLOOK. New Outlook does not support all the folders I have created over the years for organization and am unwilling to lose. I have a 16 inch MBPro M1 Max chip. Running Monterey 12.6.5.
AS a side note, I have for the past year or more had problems where white-listing emails does not work. Outlook is putting emails of people I email with regularly into SPAM. I whitelisted many of them, but Outlook is ignoring the classification and still putting those emails into SPAM.
Using older versions of Outlook for Mac in business environments
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The New Outlook interface is not working any better, and it has the problem with moving items as well.
Strange, I just made the switch and I get syncing back for years (incl Yahoo, Gmail, Exchange). Is the 3 months on certain accounts?
It's also, I discovered today, not letting me create new folders.
I agree with you 100%. I tried switching to New Outlook, which I assume they are trying to force us to do, but it only syncs to the last 3 months of emails. I now will attempt to switch back, and if that doesn't work, I'm going to Apple mail to sync with my Yahoo account. Done and done!
I don’t/can’t trust M$ at this point. First order of business is to get my “On my computer” files/folders off my Mac. I had thought these local files would be stored as PST files just as they were on my Windows machine. They are not - although everything is backed up by Apple’s Time Machine.
After I recover my local Mac Outlook files/folders and they are safely archived on my Windows machine I’ll consider my next step. Note, not all is lost, I still have my complete local PST files on my Windows machine, up until the time I migrated to Outlook 365 on the Mac. The only entries that would be missing are any new emails I added in the year or so after I migrated to Office/Outlook 365 on my Mac.
Someone asked if anyone knew of a good email client that supported local (on my computer) email. I would be curious too.
Hope this works out for everyone……..