Microsoft have disabled the ability to add IMAP accounts so that basically makes it unusable for a vast majority of people who have their own businesses, their own domain name or a third party IMAP provided email address. It worked before but you clowns disabled it. I'm guessing so you can charge us once you've disabled Mail.

Let's see if that decision sticks once you get slapped with another law suit over this debacle. Or another nice big fat juicy fine from the EU for your underhanded tactics in this matter. There is zero reason the Mail app needs to be disabled. It's just your company forcing us to use the new Outlook so you can spy on us and sell advertising through the 'features.' Just like you're doing with Edge opening PDFs.

Microsoft just paid billions for the Microsoft Teams debacle. You'd think you clowns would have learned form that mistake.

I found this script on a different thread. You have to change the profile username but the script then executes correctly. You'll have to find that by opening File Explorer and browsing to your user folders. Tap the Windows button & R and type %userprofile% in the box and press enter to find it. It's usually the first five digits of whatever name you used when you created your profile at setup.

So, right click on the Start button, choose Terminal (Admin), paste this all in but make sure you change the INSERTUSERNAME area to your username. Then press enter. Hopefully it sticks but I can't be sure of that yet. It reinstalled itself twice this morning so I guess I'll see tomorrow or after I restart my computer again today.

$folderPath = "C:\Users*INSERTUSERNAME*\AppData\Local\Packages\microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\Migration"

$acl = Get-Acl -Path $folderPath

Find the deny write rule applied earlier

$denyWriteRule = $acl.Access | Where-Object {

$\_.IdentityReference -eq "Everyone" -and   

$\_.FileSystemRights -eq "Write" -and   

$\_.AccessControlType -eq "Deny"   

}

if ($denyWriteRule) {

$acl.RemoveAccessRule($denyWriteRule)   

Set-Acl -Path $folderPath -AclObject $acl   

Write-Host "Write access restored for $folderPath"   

} else {

Write-Host "No deny write access rule found for $folderPath"   

}

Hi Mark, Thank you for posting on the forum today. I’m Bambi, a user like you and I’ll be happy to assist you. I believe you are referring to the new Outlook. Please see link for reference https://support.microsoft.com/office/656bb8d9-5a60-49b2-a98b-ba7822bc7627 This is set to replace the mail app, it may explain why it downloads itself. You could try using it and see if you like it first before you decide against using it. I hope this answers your question. Let me know if there’s anything else I can help you with. Best Regards, Bambi

Most useless unhelpful answer, ever. Some of us don't want to upgrade. The answer "try it first" doesn't solve the issue of the app reinstalling itself after you explicitly uninstalled it. I have uninstalled this app 5 times now.

I tried the new Outlook and I did not like it. Mail has the features I need. New Outlook is Overkill