No I don’t want new Fxxxing outlook

[LunarOne]

There are LOTS of decent email clients depending on your platform. Just google IMAP client Mac or IMAP client Windows.
Replace with Android/IOS as appropriate.

[Xenoous]

A major annoyance my side is the inability to import shared calendars via a distribution group like you can on the 'old' Outlook.

[sparkyhx]

I reverted on my work PC to old outlook, Its not ready AFAIC. Its a bit like Teams when it first came out, skype functionality was still better for a while, but it soon caught up.

I like the new layout, but some things are missing. I can't remember all of the issues, but do remember these

• Reminders> a few daysI have annual reminders (insurance, MOT's birthdays, etc) with the reminder set a couple of weeks before to give me time to get my ass in gear.
• I seem to remember the snooze time options was another one
• adjusting meeting times by typing over the time (e.g. changing from 'on the hr' or 'half hr' to 10 past or qtr past) has some weird behaviour
• the final straw was a simple thing like highlighting an email, then sort on sender name (to find all emails sent by that person), it then sends you to the top of the mailbox and you have to go hunting again for the emails.

They will probably be sorted in a few months, then I'll take another look. It seems to be a feature of MS lately, launching partially developed (but working) software, rather than the finished article with all/most of the functionality. Its small things like the above that just make life easier and in many cases there are workarounds, like put the insurance renewal 2 weeks before, and another at another time before rather rely on the 'reminder'. But its convenience, and I'm not sacrificing functionality for an admittedly prettier UI.

Edited by sparkyhx on Monday 29th April 08:26

[MikeM6]

You have just reminded me of some of the other aspects that are so basic I can understand why they are missing, like:
1. Being able to copy and paste in the calender
2. Sorting emails by sender, then using the keyboard to jump to first letter of their name.

[neilus]

46and2 said:

I also can't find all the email recall functions, the recall and replace seems to be missing.

It's under the Advanced menu option, accessible from the ellipsis in the top right of the message:



Judging by this thread I'm in the minority as I'm getting on well with the new version, it was a bit frustrating to start with but I persevered and am pretty used to it now.

[sgrimshaw]

TotalControl said:

Is Thunderbird really the only decent free offering?

Whilst I use TB extensively on Windows machines and have done for nearly 20 years, on Android I use K9 (not available for Windows sadly) and BlueMail (which is available for Windows).

BlueMail is pretty good, but haven't tried the Windows version ... might be worth a look.

[anonymous-user]

Something else that's now ad-tastic unless you pay your shekels.

[Fore Left]

TotalControl said:

Is Thunderbird really the only decent free offering?

Thunderbird users should take a look at Betterbird. Its a soft fork with lots of annoying bugs fixed. It will run from your Thunderbird profile.

https://www.betterbird.eu/#featuretable

[surveyor]

I've heard rumours that MS are forcing it on us soon.

Will be annoying.

[TonyRPH]

The Outlook bugs are like another glaring bug with Windows 11.

If you have multiple screens, you can only have the calendar on your primary screen.

What a backward step from earlier Windows versions....