Quote from: GeorgeS on November 13, 2024, 19:17:28Well YES.

For those that insist on actually downloading email & attachments to their systems Thunderbird and others are the option.

Frankly IDK ANYONE who actually used the applications that MS is EOL'ing however leave it to a MONOPOLY to disable functions/features that came with 'Windows'.

Personally I use: Hotmail, Yahoo & Gmail 'webmail' since the 1990's.

While I've also been perfectly happy with webmail, the idea of Microsoft downloading all your emails(from other providers) to their servers is less than ideal. Now your personal information is 2x more likely to leak. Not to mention MS is likely to use those emails to send you ads or train their AI.

Quote from: Puppy on November 13, 2024, 17:39:07The New Outlook is no longer a real application. It is just a web wrapper of www.outlook.com web mail. That's why notifications nor IMAP can work. The way the IMAP "works" now is some import to the outlook mailbox with slow polling interval. Completely useless.

Thunderbird is the alternative, it is still the real application that runs on your machine.

Well YES.

For those that insist on actually downloading email & attachments to their systems Thunderbird and others are the option.

Frankly IDK ANYONE who actually used the applications that MS is EOL'ing however leave it to a MONOPOLY to disable functions/features that came with 'Windows'.

Personally I use: Hotmail, Yahoo & Gmail 'webmail' since the 1990's.

The New Outlook is no longer a real application. It is just a web wrapper of www.outlook.com web mail. That's why notifications nor IMAP can work. The way the IMAP "works" now is some import to the outlook mailbox with slow polling interval. Completely useless.

Thunderbird is the alternative, it is still the real application that runs on your machine.

this is not true... IMAP works just fine - i have 3 accounts on the new outlook.

The thing is it lacks options that the standard Outlook has - changing columns in Inbox, categories are not that good as in standard outlook.

It just needs polishing, and it will get there with time.

"... the new Outlook for Windows is missing many basic features ..."

One of the most basic features it's missing is IMAP support (which every other email application has).  Microsoft seems to be refusing to implement IMAP support as they want everyone to get a new Microsoft email addresses.

If you access your email by IMAP, switching to the new Outlook means that you can no longer send and receive emails.  Pretty fundamental problem!