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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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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.
I added a macbook M1 2 or 3 years ago. I installed parallels - in part for screenshots when I'm answering questions on the macbook, but also because Outlook for mac doesn't have all the features I need.
A client switched to a mac - he uses pst files and it did not take him long to realize Outlook for mac was not going to meet his needs. We set up parallels and have Outlook 90% identical to his old windows laptop - a few add-ins won't work on ARM.
I've been following this thread since May 2023 and here we are in January 2024.
It doesn't seem that Microsoft is doing anything at all to fix the problem.
Is it time to look for an alternate email client that can do IMAP and Rules?
The reason I'm not moving my yahoo account to anywhere else is that I've opened it back in early 2000s, when I received a feature to make free "fake" emails within my one main mailbox. This feature now is a plus addition or pro feature for most of the mail companies and you have to pay extra money for that. Even in Yahoo if you open a new account this feature isn't free anymore. Yes, I'm aware that you can make fake emails in gmail with +words@ tricks on your mail address, but that feels weird and not actually working as I would like it to work. So I stick to my yahoo mailbox and use it whenever I sign up for a website, I create a special email address to those sites and I can keep count and follow-up on their communication, or just simply delete the email address without any drawbacks and get rid of spam mails like this easily.
I've yet to ask yahoo support for their side of the story and if they can do a workaround for the issue to get rid of...
Hi, David. I'm sorry to hear you're having this problem, and I hope I can assist you to find a satisfactory solution.
Did you follow the steps from the official link below, especially the Yahoo configuration part?
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/add-...
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