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
    2024-11-30T00:16:58+00:00

    I have been using Thunderbird and I have tried the one suggested, the same problem appears to be unfixable on both, it does not delete files properly, and I am left with this heading with a stupid date and delectable,
    It is removed on restarting BUT I have to do that for every 7-10 emails, it is so frustrating that I have decided to put up with the Windows second-rate client, all others I have tried on the free tier have something missing, either too limited in accounts, won't sort by date etcetera.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-11-28T01:22:29+00:00

    Betterbird is well-maintained. Especially the recurrent amnesia of Thunderbird with login credentials has been solved.

    The Thunderbird team is unresponsive.

    I have not experienced crashes on Win11 and the app is lightning fast with 160k emails. I use Gmail, Outlook, Gmx, Yahoo and other providers and it all works well.

    With Thunderbird there were random issues and frustrations.

    These guys took the Thunderbird codebase and fixed and improved it. Email has just become an app that I use but never notice, because it works ...

    Thanks. I was actually pretty satisfied with Thunderbird but I noticed that they actually released Betterbird 128.5.0esr-bb18, yesterday on 26 November 2024 and 128.5.0esr was the version I was using on Thunderbird. Thanks for the feedback.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-11-28T01:02:24+00:00

    Betterbird is well-maintained. Especially the recurrent amnesia of Thunderbird with login credentials has been solved.

    The Thunderbird team is unresponsive.

    I have not experienced crashes on Win11 and the app is lightning fast with 160k emails. I use Gmail, Outlook, Gmx, Yahoo and other providers and it all works well.

    With Thunderbird there were random issues and frustrations.

    These guys took the Thunderbird codebase and fixed and improved it. Email has just become an app that I use but never notice, because it works ...

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-11-28T00:47:15+00:00

    I gave up on Outlook and this Unified Inbox problem. MS is unable to fix this. The easy solution is to install BetterBird from betterbird dot eu - this is an optimised version of Thunderbird. It also solves some issues of Thunderbird with the authentication issues since the changes from dear MS. I have 20 email accounts from different providers and it has been working without problems for 6 months.

    Thanks for the reply. I know you mentioned that BetterBird solved some issues and that was the reason for witching from Thunderbird. Since I keep seeing info that said BetterBird is better I thought I would download it and check it out. It automatically grabbed everything from Thunderbird except a theme and an add-on but from a look and feel, both look the same so I'm wondering what you can tell me what I might expect to be different than what I experienced with Thunderbird?

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-11-27T22:19:05+00:00

    I gave up on Outlook and this Unified Inbox problem. MS is unable to fix this. The easy solution is to install BetterBird from betterbird dot eu - this is an optimised version of Thunderbird. It also solves some issues of Thunderbird with the authentication issues since the changes from dear MS. I have 20 email accounts from different providers and it has been working without problems for 6 months.

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