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
    2024-09-05T04:53:53+00:00

    I too have the same problem. Is there a workable solution?

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-09-05T08:19:41+00:00

    I assume given the amount of negative feedback on the issue that Microsoft are well aware and the lack of helpful comment on the issue or progress on a solution from them over a long period of time is worrying. They are either incompetent or don't care for users once signed up.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-09-05T17:41:02+00:00

    Best you could do is setting up the inboxes as favorites so they appear in the Favorite part. Deeply unsatisfying imo but other than that it's changing the mail client to Thunderbird of Betterbird who support unified inbox.

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  4. 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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  5. Anonymous
    2024-09-05T19:24:27+00:00

    You could always get a Mac! Outlook on MacOS actually does support unified mailbox! I’ve been using it’!

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