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
    2024-11-28T01:02:24+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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  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
    2024-11-30T00:16:58+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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  4. Anonymous
    2024-11-30T17:24:49+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.

    I'm curious whether you're inbound server set up is IMAP or POP3? It seems that most email apps want to configure the server settings for IMAP and IMAP is designed to place a copy of the message from the server in your inbox but leave the message on the server. Perhaps what's happening is that it's deleting the copy in Thunderbird or Betterbird and indicating that when you exit it's going to delete the message off the server but not until you exit. POP3 on the other hand downloads the message into Thunderbird or BetterBird and removes it from the server so when you delete it, it's really deleted. I have mobile devices setup as IMAP so I can see and read my mail while I'm on the go but I have always set up my copy of Outlook, Thunderbird or BetterBird on my PC as POP3 and I've never had a problem deleting a message with that configuration.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-12-04T21:13:51+00:00

    Thanks for your input. I decided to do the same as you I don't want the hassle of setting up an experiment service only to have to change to a different one later. I just wish Microsoft would give us a platform that fills my needs. The obviously could but are trying to push everyone into using outlook for their exclusive email account

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