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
    2024-08-19T12:15:42+00:00

    The Microsoft way: create incredible bloat to achieve something that should be so simple...

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-08-19T12:25:59+00:00

    That Microsoft would be so blind as to NOT include the capability to unify multiple email accounts just didn't seem possible at first and I spent hours thinking 'it must be me...there surely must be a way to do this." THANK YOU! to all of you in the Community for your replies and sharing your common experience. So SAD and DISAPPOINTING to think Microsoft a) wouldn't include this capability and b) that they wouldn't have fixed it by now knowing all of the complaints about it. Or...as we should probably expect...they'll 'fix it', but only for an 'upgraded version' that will, of course, cost extra!! Thanks, again, everyone!

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-08-23T00:56:37+00:00

    It is really funny. I have been using Thunderbird for 15 years.

    Today I wanted to migrate to Outllook. Spent 4 hours transferring folders and creating accounts to realize, that it does not do UNIFIED FOLDERS and have to go back to Thunderbird

    What????

    In Thunderbird I use one simple click to do that. This is ridiculous

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-08-25T18:31:08+00:00

    I just switched to New Outlook my computer and I got the unified Inbox by default when it started up. However, when I switched to New Outlook on my wife's computer, all her accounts show as separate Inboxes. I couldn't figure out why it worked for me and not for her. So I started googling and ended up on this webpage. All I can say is there has to be a way to do it as it is working on my computer (it is a Windows computer, not Mac).

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-08-25T18:52:46+00:00

    Thank you for replying. That is interesting.

    Does New Outllook automatically adopts all your accounts and data? Mine doesnt, it starts as fresh and it says it is not bale not transfer data. Which is ridiculous as well

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