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Mail & Calendar Apps Will Be Replaced with New Outlook for Windows December 2024
Original Publish Date: June 2023 | MC650424 Revised Date: August 30, 2023, based on Microsoft's Updated Message See text in red font.
Microsoft's revised announcement states that the Mail and C...
The most important feature missing from New Outlook (for me) is the ability to save emails locally. This is a requirement for many regulated businesses. Outlook in Microsoft 365 (was Office 365...) saves emails in local pst files.
Also, I don't believe "we plan to add support for ..... and other email providers through IMAP and POP" since Microsoft have withdrawn all support for POP - our POP mailboxes are no longer accessible to "old" Outlook.
Also, I don't believe "we plan to add support for ..... and other email providers through IMAP and POP" since Microsoft have withdrawn all support for POP - our POP mailboxes are no longer accessible to "old" Outlook.
Hi tjrw1
In September 2023, Microsoft shared this image, identifying which features are in progress or planned. PST and offline support are in progress or planned.
#traccreations4e 10/26/2023
- Thanks.
Is there any indication of time-scale?
We have one mail box that is 94% full (we keep getting reminders...) but the emails are all required to be kept.
There used to be an option in early New Outlook to Save emails but this seems to have disappeared. Emails were saved into the local Downloads folder as eml files which then loaded into Outlook 365.- As it looks as though PST files in New Outlook will be some time, I have found a tedious way round the problem of offline archiving of emails. Our email accounts were all POP accounts which can now only be accessed through a web portal such as New Outlook. All our previous emails are stored in offline PST files with Office 365 Outlook. I have set up a new outlook.com account accessible in both Old and New Outlook. Emails in New Outlook can be forwarded to the new account, opened in Old Outlook, moved to the appropriate account (you can't move emails between accounts in New Outlook) and therefore saved in the local PST file.
It's going to be time-consuming to do this for all the past emails in New Outlook but quite easy for new emails as they come in.
