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New MS Outlook for Mac - No IMAP/POP3 Support

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wood1e1

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Hi,

Sorry if I am asking an old question, but does anyone know when Outlook 4 Mac will support IMAP/POP3?

I spoke with a support person at MS and they completely blamed Apple for not developing a suitable solution! Which I find amazing if true!!

Anyway, very frustrating that I cannot use the new Outlook, as the current version is not brilliant! :)
 
There is a toggle (somewhere) in the latest Outlook to switch back to the "old" format of the app that will re-enable IMAP and POP3. I had the same issue and turning that toggle off re-enabled IMAP for me.
 
wood1e1 said:
Hi,

Sorry if I am asking an old question, but does anyone know when Outlook 4 Mac will support IMAP/POP3?

I spoke with a support person at MS and they completely blamed Apple for not developing a suitable solution! Which I find amazing if true!!

Anyway, very frustrating that I cannot use the new Outlook, as the current version is not brilliant! :)
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Worth a read, but by the end of it you'll be looking for another email client...... https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/12/microsoft_macos_outlook_changes/

I've just got MailMate - really powerful..
 
@MacGizmo you are right it is very prominent, but I don't want to keep switching from one to another!!


@Slarti.BartFast - Thanks I have seen that, but for all the updates, if the software doesn't work with POP3 or IMAP it is a pointless software!!

Someone at MS or Apple needs technology explained to them!!
 
wood1e1 said:
@MacGizmo you are right it is very prominent, but I don't want to keep switching from one to another!!


@Slarti.BartFast - Thanks I have seen that, but for all the updates, if the software doesn't work with POP3 or IMAP it is a pointless software!!

Someone at MS or Apple needs technology explained to them!!
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Outlook is primarily targeted at 365/Azure customers now, if you're not using it, you're basically out of luck - this is not exclusive to MacOS. They're actively making all on-prem prohibitively expensive to push customers to cloud services.
 
GiantKiwi said:
Outlook is primarily targeted at 365/Azure customers now, if you're not using it, you're basically out of luck - this is not exclusive to MacOS. They're actively making all on-prem prohibitively expensive to push customers to cloud services.
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It doesn't work with 365 accounts, either. The "preview" of the next version of Outlook is there for those that want to get a look at the next version... it's not meant to actually BE the next version. This isn't a bug or a feature with Outlook, Microsoft or Apple. It's just a beta preview built-in to the shipping Outlook app.
 
MacGizmo said:
It doesn't work with 365 accounts, either. The "preview" of the next version of Outlook is there for those that want to get a look at the next version... it's not meant to actually BE the next version. This isn't a bug or a feature with Outlook, Microsoft or Apple. It's just a beta preview built-in to the shipping Outlook app.
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I am currently logged in with both a 365 account and with a lot of finicky setup, a local domain exchange account.
 
It's 2020 and Microsoft still hasn't figured out CardDAV/CalDAV. Unless MS or MS tools (Exchange, outlook.com, etc) are your email provider, there's no reason to bother with Outlook on the Mac.
 
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posguy99 said:
It's 2020 and Microsoft still hasn't figured out CardDAV/CalDAV. Unless MS or MS tools (Exchange, outlook.com, etc) are your email provider, there's no reason to bother with Outlook on the Mac.
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They don't need to figure CalDAV out, ActiveSync serves the same purpose, except it is instantaneous vs time-based.
 
I see there's a new Outlook build today. 16.44.20120602. Any chance it's going to allow "New" Outlook to access iCloud and IMAP?

UPDATE: And yet another update, same day, to 16.44.20120703
 
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