New MS Outlook for Mac - No IMAP/POP3 Support

[wood1e1]

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!

 

[MacGizmo]

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.

 

[Slarti.BartFast]

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!

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..

 

[wood1e1]

@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!!

 

[GiantKiwi]

@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!!

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.

 

[MacGizmo]

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.

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.

 

[johannnn]

It doesn't work with 365 accounts, either.

Doesn't work? Our entire corporation use the "new" Outlook and it's great.

 

[GiantKiwi]

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.

I am currently logged in with both a 365 account and with a lot of finicky setup, a local domain exchange account.

 

[posguy99]

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.

 

[GiantKiwi]

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.

They don't need to figure CalDAV out, ActiveSync serves the same purpose, except it is instantaneous vs time-based.

 

[posguy99]

They don't need to figure CalDAV out, ActiveSync serves the same purpose, except it is instantaneous vs time-based.

And how many providers support ActiveSync again? Ah, thought so.

 

[GiantKiwi]

And how many providers support ActiveSync again? Ah, thought so.

Exchange in all of its derivatives commands ~80% market share. CalDAV users are very distinctly a small minority.

 

[MacGizmo]

I am currently logged in with both a 365 account and with a lot of finicky setup, a local domain exchange account.

I've not been so lucky. We can't get anything but Gmail and an old outlook.com address to work.

 

[srbNYC]

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