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NEW Outlook app: how to add an IMAP account with user name different from email address?
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Anonymous
The advanced configuration will allow me to specify an SMTP user name but there is no way to configure the IMAP user name being different from the email-address.
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Anonymous
2023-10-23T01:22:58+00:00 -
Anonymous
2023-11-05T14:28:51+00:00 This is frankly embarrassing for Microsoft. I cannot think of an email client in the last 30 years that did not have this most basic feature. Even the most amateur hobby open source email clients can specify an imap username.
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Anonymous
2023-11-18T12:39:16+00:00 New Outlook is garbage. This is only one of the issues which shows it should never have been released anywhere near the general public at this stage.
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Anonymous
2023-12-27T13:23:26+00:00 Still, no way to give the username of the imap account. So, the new outlook mail client is completely useless to me. Who conducted the user stories and acceptance tests for this?
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Anonymous
2024-01-14T00:24:55+00:00 Even the feedback HUB application is faulty.