New Outlook with multiple accounts

Anonymous
2024-02-17T14:30:22+00:00

Hi,

In the new outlook, I have 6 email accounts. They all transferred in with the transition just fine. However, there does not appear to be a way to know which email accounts have new mail in them other than clicking on each account. And to add injury to insult, when you click on an account, you get another drop down menu.

I am in windows 11 and the 365 subscription version of outlook.

I absolutely need to see at a glance which accounts have new email in them on the main account screen. When an account does have new email, I need to be able to click on that email and have the inbox open with one click and not give me another menu to click through.,

Without these features you are adding a ridiculous amount of time to what should be a two second glance to check emails.

These are not wants, they are absolute needs.

Can anyone help? Or is time to find a new app?

Any help appreciated.

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-01-07T23:59:15+00:00

    Thanks to all for their responses. It is hard to believe that Microsoft didn’t build this capability into the new outlook from the beginning. Let’s hope the March update does allow all email accounts to be consolidated into one inbox folder.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-07T17:23:50+00:00

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=%23newoutlookforwindows%2C375635

    As per Microsoft update, it will be rollout on March 2025

    Hi Mahadeer,

    Does this mean it will be the same as the Mac version? (One all inboxes folder for added accounts not just outlook shared mailbox).

    It seems pretty straightforward there should just be an all inboxes folder for the inboxes added as accounts i.e. gmail, pop/imap

    Is this update only specific to shared mailboxes created in outlook? If not it wouldn't satisfy the issue of this specific forum.

    Best Regards,

    Cameron

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-10-23T16:13:09+00:00

    I'm still using the Old client, but it is unstable and soft-locks regularly. Sometimes it recovers, often it does not.

    I have an outlook.com, a couple of ISP hosted custom domain exchange accounts, an ISP hosted IMPA custom domain IMAP, and a few gmails.

    Can anyone suggest a better client than Outlook?

    If I get rid of Outlook I can probably get rid of my Office365 subscription too, at the time Outlook was only bundled with a higher tier O365 and I have been sitting on it for about 12 years!

    There are a few email clients I have seen, but some have a bit of a learning curve:

    • Mailbird - has a unified email management
    • Mozilla Thunderbird - is a free and open-source email client
    • eM Client - works okay
    • Spike - is a multi-platform application
    • Mailspring - is open-source and similar to MS Mail

    Thats just a few, and I haven't tried them all. Security might also be questionable but in general, I think you'll be fine to try one or two. My Mail app hasn't hit rock bottom yet, so I'm a stick with what I got. Good luck.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-10-22T02:30:58+00:00

    I am still using the old Mail app despite being forced to uninstall "New Outlook" every time I so much as restart my PC. If I don't uninstall "New Outlook" then it auto redirects the moment you try to open the old Mail app (in addition to closing out of it).

    Why is MC forcing this down our throats? No idea. Will I be able to open the Mail app in the future? Probably not for long...

    Why Microsoft? Why are you forcing my hand on such a small but super annoying issue? Why can I not disable the switch to "New Outlook?"

    I don't ask for much, but I need a combined email inbox for the five emails I am forced to have for my work, school, and pleasure. I WILL NOT pay for a subscription or use some 3rd party app to have this simple convenience.

    Please fix this. I beg you.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-10-13T02:16:23+00:00

    There is no unified listing of email accounts in Windows or 11. That only exists in Outlook for Apple products. It continues as a major problem for Windows that remains unaddressed.

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