Technology @beehaw.org ElCanut @jlai.lu 8 mo. ago

Outlook (new)

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The new Outlook looks like a standalone app version of OWA. They’re probably doing that to unify code bases but it’s seriously lacking some features that Outlook had.

Can’t open PST files

Sort was borked

Couldn’t set caching options for Exchange

And that’s just a few I remember. Though it’s been a good year since I’ve played with it last.
- Also it forwards your SMPT/IMAP data to Microsoft without your consent.
  
  No, no, Microsoft cares about my privacy. I get a daily popup reminding me of this and also asking for me to share my private data with them.
- I tried the "New Outlook" a few months ago. There was no longer a Save As option for attachments. All attachments were downloaded to the default downloads directory.
  
  I immediately uninstalled and didn't look back.
  
  I think it tries to force you to save Office documents to SharePoint/OneDrive as well....
- they're just trying to con people into using the new data harvesting mail app by calling it 'outlook'
- My company moved from using Gmail to Outlook and I saw it as an opportunity to migrate to Thunderbird/K9-Mail. Best decision I made, it was a bit rough at the beggining because it needed some extension to Sync contacts but it works much faster than the shitty Outlook app/web.
  
  What do you use to sync contacts?
  
  I've used Thunderbird in the past (some years ago), but eventually switched to Outlook because of contacts and calendar sync and integration IIRC. Integration with extensions was always a hassle and most didn't really work IIRC.
  
  https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/tbsync/
  
  and
  
  https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/eas-4-tbsync/
- The big one for me is drag/drop, copy/paste, saving of emails and attachments between Outlook and the rest of Windows/Office is completely borked.
  
  I have to keep both versions open at work to keep from going completely insane.
- (New) disabled all my inbox rules and since you can't create new rules in the OWA irom what I could see, there was basically no management. Glad I moved my personal stuff to Proton before they kill the standard Outlook app entirely
  
  I am currently using the new outlook desktop version and there are rules. However, they seem to have cut "local only" stuff. I suspect that they moved the execution server side.
- @ramble81 @ElCanut
  It is still super slow and feels limited compared to the old one.
  
  Rules as example are really bad since it allows only a single action of given type. So to label a mail with different labels I need a rule per label instead of a single one in the previous Outlook version.
- I wonder if the tasks pane has been added to the new outlook yet. Last time I tried it at work it was no where to be found. I like having my flagged items next to my inbox.
  
  That was actually just added in a recent update like a month ago! I've started using it a lot at work, but annoyingly you still have to go to the dedicated tasks webapp for full edit capabilities
- Tasks are missing completely not to speak of all of the advanced task management functions of old outlook.
- Its the same it sucks. Had to switch back.
- I've been using it at work and its fine. Honestly, Outlook has no many strange features that date back a decade or two that have very few users that it makes sense to purge a bunch of them in favor of reducing technical debt
  
  Like PST files? lol
- Can’t put any kind of internal notes on emails.
  
  Of course no email clients have that. Which is ridiculous.

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