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About every 2- 3weeks, the Mail app continues to automatically switch me to Outlook, without asking me. And I have to manually switch back to Mail.
I run an HP Pavilion laptop with Windows 11.
I'm aware that Mail will eventually be discontinued, however, that's not for another year. I plan to use Mail for the next year, since Outlook currently is very difficult for me to use. However, Mail continually tries to suggest I switch, and then forces me to switch. This has happened over and over again for the last few months.
What can I do to disable Mail from switching me to Outlook?
Using New Outlook on Windows for professional communication and productivity
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Microsoft seems to have fixed my problem with Outlook. My smtp server is working. It would be nice if they had let me know. I guess they have better things to do than monitor their sites.
It didn't work for me.
You can't go to Settings - then click Apps and scroll down to " Outlook new" -click on it - click uninstall - then a pop-up reads "this will uninstall all outlook .." then click uninstall again.
When it's uninstalled, my previous Email program comes back.
sir，I agree！
When will Microsoft realise no body likes or wants the new Outlook, and that people were happy with the old Mail Calendar app, as it was easy to use, nice fuss free look and didn't take 200 years to open/load, and you could have as many email addresses from various other places as you wanted, now Oct 24, every time I open Mail this new rubbish adware bloated Outlook keeps downloading it's self in the back ground and taking over my pc... I have repeatedly uninstalled it and yet it keeps forcing it's self back onto my pc, NOT funny Microsoft, you should not be forcing end users to use something they don't want.
I'm so fed up with this, forcible takeover by "new" Outlook and having tried various other email clients, but they are pretty much as bad as new Outlook, I'm thinking about going to Linux after being a solid Windows user since Windows 95.
If anyone has a fool proof way to keep the old mail app and stop Outlook taking over, I'd love to hear it, other wise I'm off to find a different OS
Regards
One very disgruntled (ex) Windows user