Looking for "all mailboxes" in new outlook interface

Anonymous
2024-01-16T19:48:15+00:00

I have started using the new Outlook desktop interface. In the older version I was able to enter this search term: Folder:inbox and select all mailboxes and it would display all my inboxes from different email accounts. I cannot find the equivalent in the new interface. Does it exist? How can I look at the inbox of all my accounts without having to do them one at a time?

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-12-30T17:50:11+00:00

    I can't believe this is not available in the new version. I thought this was a joke and I was just missing some settings. Then I did a Google search and found over 100 angry replies from people. This is crazy; this was such a streamlined, basic feature from the old Outlook. If you have 10 email accounts from different points in your business, like an info, support, feedback, and other email accounts, and you want to do a simple search for a message you saw from a customer, you can't do this anymore. You have to go through mailbox by mailbox, duplicating the amount of work and time it takes. I honestly, at this point, don't know why anyone would ever be using the new Outlook. There are so many missing features; I think it's about four years of development behind. This reminds me of when Microsoft bought Skype and completely destroyed it. Everyone I knew who was using Skype before had to stop using it, and then five years later, all of the features of the old version are back, but now all the users are gone. I actually feel embarrassed to use Skype if I log back in. This is exactly what they're doing with Outlook, but I think they learned a little bit about what happened after they desecrated Skype, so they're leaving the old Outlook functional for another few years.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-06-29T00:48:46+00:00

    The Outlook Team is tracking Unified Inbox as a feature request for future consideration. It's a commonly requested feature but the team has other priority work in front of it currently. The new and upcoming features are posted here, https://aka.ms/newOutlookComingSoon.  If you want to give direct feedback, click Help, Feedback, Make a suggestion.

    THE NEW INBOX UNIFIED IS EXTREMELY ANNOYING AS WE USED IT CONSTANTLY AND NOW MAKES OUTLOOK VERY UNPLEASEANT TO USE WHEN YOU HAVE MULTIPLE EMAIL ADDRESSES, PLEASE FIX.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-11-03T17:22:59+00:00

    The Outlook Team is tracking Unified Inbox as a feature request for future consideration. It's a commonly requested feature but the team has other priority work in front of it currently. The new and upcoming features are posted here, https://aka.ms/newOutlookComingSoon.  If you want to give direct feedback, click Help, Feedback, Make a suggestion.

    other priority work? Are you serious? Those people who decide to kill the most important and necessary functions for people - why do they still work for the company? Why do you waste time on incomprehensible "priority" tasks if no one will use your client because it does not have the BASIC necessary functions?

    All of us who are shocked by what is happening here do not need to be a programmer and a space-level manager to understand the basic things that any email client in 2024 should be developed with functions:

    1. General inbox(incoming and sent) for all accounts
    2. General search for all accounts
    3. When closing the application, minimize it to the tray and work in the background - outlook new does not even have such a simple function
    4. Synchronization of all accounts(outlook, gmail, icloud) with the cloud (already implemented only on PC app - not android)

    All these vital functions are not in your roadmap, why would people need other useless functions if they won't use outlook(new) because of the lack of the above functions? Your programmers install a salon and an air conditioner in a car that doesn't drive - do you understand this?

    I am very, very sorry that your leadership will never see this message and will not see the general anger of the people - this is the result of your work

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-06T16:51:26+00:00

    The Outlook Team is tracking Unified Inbox as a feature request for future consideration. It's a commonly requested feature but the team has other priority work in front of it currently. The new and upcoming features are posted here, https://aka.ms/newOutlookComingSoon.  If you want to give direct feedback, click Help, Feedback, Make a suggestion.

    I just came back again since my first message in March 2024 and see zero progress has been made. I am a recently retired software developer with 40 years of experience. I have been in dozens of product development meetings where new products as well as upgrade x.0 product features were discussed, evaluated, and determined. I cannot believe no one sitting in your meetings did not express that you were making a magnificent error. Instead of moving forward with the basic missing functionality of a unified IMAP inbox, I'll bet the young UI designers got on top to draw pretty pictures and the AI team sold you down the river with wizz bang functionality. I'll bet there wasn't a gray hair in the room. SAD!

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-05-29T07:42:31+00:00

    It is super odd, I agree. But it shows that the design team doesn't care about functionality of their product.

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