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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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Please explain if I am interpreting your setup as a work around. Are you setting up a PC with Outlook as a host/primary but using your Mac and somehow by way of using the PC too, it correct the ghosting and synching issues?k
I'm running a windows virtual machine on my mac - for a better email experience and so I can get screenshots from windows when I'm using the mac.
Thanks Diane - good idea - a virtual machine (VM) on the Mac. But this old retired guy would rather use the $99 annual cost for wine. 😎
A scathing detailed review of the New Outlook for Windows was just reported the the Askwoody newsletter. It has the same problems as the New Outlook for the Mac. Bottom line: stay with Classic Outlook on Windows (aka: Legacy on the Mac) but Mac users don't have this luxury.
If you are a paid subscriber to Askwoody you can see all the gory details at this link > https://www.askwoody.com/2024/five-reasons-not-to-use-the-new-outlook/
But then aren't you paying Microsoft for a license for Windows and a license to Office for Windows, as well as paying for virtual machine software, all just to run Outlook for Mac?? Why not just run Mail on the Mac or new Outlook (and I am running legacy Outlook because while the Yahoo situation in annoying it isn't a crucial email service for me anymore).