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
    2025-03-14T15:34:37+00:00

    I'm another who got fed up waiting. I dropped Outlook and now use eM Client 👍

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-03-15T11:23:16+00:00

    Same me, I switched to eM Client which is fantastic. I just added the $2 a month AI reply add on to test it, and it works really good.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-03-15T20:18:25+00:00

    Try search criteria combinations and/or macro utility from this guy on YouTube: https://youtu.be/V8m6HorjaNA?si=C9Wj9sbQEkgPQWtF These approaches do allow for the combination of several inboxes in one place.

    Good luck and feel free to offer feedback.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-03-16T09:03:38+00:00

    Hi Chris,

    Tried those exact solutions. Clunky and the 'unified search' is SUPER slow to populate every time it's selected. It is an option but I found it unworkable.

    Ultimately ditching Outlook for em Client had been a game changer - however it was NOT my intention or desire to so, Microsoft drove me to by IGNORING years of customers asking for what every other provider offers.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-03-16T10:53:15+00:00

    Thank you for the suggestion. I’m looking at emClient now. Never even thought about searching for another email app until this reference.

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