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Mail & Calendar Apps Will Be Replaced with New Outlook for Windows December 2024
I have been trying to the new Outlook for Windows this week and am very disappointed. It would replace the Microsoft 365 version for me. Potentiall a deal breaker for me is the absence of rules for non-.live accounts. My primary email account is verizon.net and has been for decades. I have rules that file emails into about a dozen folders based on who sent them. I rely on this feature to simplify answering emails -- there's so much junk to wade through otherwise.
As an aside, the process for importing IMAP emails from aol.com, which now manages verizon.net, is arcane. You might feel that's AOL's fault, but it's your problem to fix. To start with, the default info in the wizard for aol wants to use Yahoo servers, which I don't believe is supported anymore by aol. So you need to make imap.aol.com the incoming server and smtp.verizon.net the outgoing one.
Importing an email account takes forever. As a test, I imported about 18k emails into gmail and it took less than a day. In that same amount of time, less than 4k have shown up in New Outlook. I cannot yet tell if the folders I have set up under old outlook will import and fill properly; they worked fine in gmail.
What is Microsoft's plan for the 365 desktop version of Outlook? will it continue supporting that for non-Exchange users? Will it continue with the web browser client?