NEW Outlook app: how to add an IMAP account with user name different from email address?

Still waiting for this feature to be added. Come on MS sort it out!

Still can not get this to work in Microsoft Outlook Version 1.2024.207.500 (Production). Client Version is 20240209002.12 .

I can get 'New Outlook' to fetch mail from my imap account if i create an account with the address <username>@<mail provider> instead of <mail address>@<mail provider> but then my 'reply to' is set to <username>@<mail provider> replying to this will not go to my email account.

Can not find a way to change the 'reply to' address so no New Outlook for me!

/Ruben

Here too in April 2024. Until "The new Outlook" I was able to configure an IMAP username which is not the email address in ALL free Microsoft email client products since 1998. Now it seems Microsoft doesn't WANT users to use their free email software anymore, except you bought Office 365 or use Live (which is a Spam hell since a few years btw.).

After 6 months I don't expect that this is getting better (and since I need to read my email...), so I have no choice and change to Thunderbird. It's free also, but it has that simple, basic and absolutely required feature for authenticating at an IMAP server: It's possible to enter an username! Wow.

I wonder how it is even possible that a big company like Microsoft does "forget" something like this in a product which Windows users are forced to use, after Windows Mail (which worked actually well so far) was purged suddenly, and I don't believe that this was a mistake. So better say good bye to "The new Outlook" and move on to an email client that is usable. Don't waste time with sending feature requests that are being ignored. because Microsoft don't WANT you to use their product for free anymore.

By the way you can also use Thunderbird with Office 365 and Live on many OS (not only Windows), and it does offer WAY more features than any Microsoft email client software did ever.

The lack of IMAP settings options in the New Outlook causes duplicates of my e-mails in the SENT ITEMS folder. Normally, there should be an option for IMAP to uncheck "Save a Copy of Sent Messages on the Server". But, alas, this setting is nowhere to be found in this dumbed-down e-mail client.

This is really really annoying. All my family email addresses have different IMAP login user names from their actual email addresses - just how the hosting provider sets them up and now we cannot use Outlook as there is now way to actually add these types of accounts. How can Microsoft miss something as obvious as providing a user name box??

Is there any indication when this might be fixed?

Yes quite agree, unbelievable that they could write this new app without the functionality to set the user name ... and still haven't resolved it months later, April 2024.

It even messes up accounts imported from the old Mail app, which used to work fine. Even worse Microsoft now force you to the Outlook App when you try to run the old Mail app so now have to go looking for a different mail client.