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
    2024-10-01T15:36:54+00:00

    Yeah I guess that's the best solution, but then you have to do that for junk and archives to? Unmanageable with 5 email accounts according to me.

    It's funny how the app that is on their own OS is the one that's worst. Like others have said this feature exists on Outlook apps for other OS but not their own.

    Seems like it should be an easy fix to. Just add a view that combines all. They've already solved on other platforms!

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-09-07T03:14:07+00:00

    this is a hopeless explanation. The instruction in step 1.2 is meaningless, there is no "Account icon". how about trying again?

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-09-05T17:56:28+00:00

    I dumped Outlook (again) and switched to BetterBird a couple of months ago. Seems to be great, altho the Calendar could be streamlined.
    I will never use Outlook again unless they add UNIFIED MAILBOXES... ugh

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-09-05T02:32:50+00:00

    This is literally what happened to me right now. I was using Thunderbird with no issues, but because I use Outlook for work I decided to migrate. Big big mistake. I can't believe there's a whole thread with 20k views and 82 replies completly ignored by Microsoft.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-08-25T20:04:11+00:00

    My bad! Actually it is not working. I realized that I had set up automatic email forwarding from my other accounts to my default email account in Outlook.

    Another thing I noticed is that if you have only one Inbox in Favorites, it will just show as Inbox. That's why I thought it was a unified Inbox. Once I added other Inboxes to Favorites, they show up as Inbox (acct1), Inbox (acct2), etc.

    Bummer! We definitely need this feature.

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