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
    2025-01-07T17:23:50+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
    2025-01-07T14:51:14+00:00

    Yay!!! Very much appreciate the update on this troubling issue, Mahadeer!! Thank you to all who've also wanted this feature added back into Outlook. It appears your comments just may have contributed to making this happen! GM

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-07T11:22:22+00:00

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-01-01T23:25:33+00:00

    I HAD the same problem until I changed my "Favorites" list at the top of the navigation panel. I went to each of my 4 email addresses below that I had added to my account and left-clicked on the 3 dots to the right of INBOX for that email. Then I selected "Add to favorites" and the INBOX for that email appeared under Favorites. Then I went to Favorites and clicked on the 3 dots to the right of each of the default favorites I didn't want and selected "Remove from Favorites". Now in favorites, I have only my 4 email INBOXES With each email address in brackets alongside and when I get an email in that INBOX, it has a number to the right showing me that I have mail. I don't have to go to each email down below anymore to check for mail. It's not perfect but will do UNTIL MS gets a UNIFIED INBOX they should have had by now!

    EDIT: You have to click on the email account to open the drop-down list of folders. I then selected my INBOX folder as the one I wanted in favorites. You can select any folder in the drop-down list by clicking the 3 dots and add to favorites.

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