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.

Outlook | Windows | New Outlook for Windows | For home

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-02-07T09:00:55+00:00

    Sadly that doesn't work with New Outlook. There's no developer tab to be turned on in the ribbon so you can't make a fancy unified inbox for yourself.

    I'm still somewhat shocked that Outlook doesn't have a unified inbox. On my iPhone/iPad/Mac it's there by default in the Apple mail apps. Before I used Outlook I used to have a unified inbox (back in 2012 and I can't even remember which tool I was using then!). They are so behind the curve in making something that it's somewhat amazing.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-02-05T03:06:03+00:00

    Or you could dump Outlook and use Thunderbird or its enhanced version, BetterBird, for free. It consolidtaes your calendars too. MS will never fix this. Outlook has a consolidated view on every other device including OS Desktop, but not the main platform of the developer.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-02-02T03:00:27+00:00

    Here is the solution workaround. It 100% works; it took me 5 minutes to set up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8w6O_btYdo&t=67s&ab_channel=I.M.H.O.

    Shame on Microsoft for ignoring the user's request.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-30T23:57:39+00:00

    Count me in as well. NEED UNIFIED INBOX LIKE THE OLD VERSION HAD.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-01-23T14:53:28+00:00

    I also had this issue--a year go when these posts were going up. THERE WAS NO unified box and so many people (including myself) simply continued to use the older Mail program since it did. Last night I could no longer force Mail to open. I have spent the day converting to the new program (unhappily) believing there was no way they fixed the problem people were most vocal about. THEY HAVE NOT that I can find. Favorites simply puts all the accounts you want unified in a list at the top of the folders column. You still have to view your accounts one at a time. THANKS FOR NOTHING Microsoft--we appreciate your listening to your end users.

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