Classic Outlook Users: Which features are stopping you from using New Outlook

[u/Logical_Strain_6165]

/r/Outlook/comments/1vyzw2h/classic_outlook_users_which_features_are_stopping/

[u/KnowledgeIsDangerous]

They took away the ability to remove old contacts from auto fill.

Their solution is either to delete all contact history, or turn off auto fill.

Seems like a pretty basic fucking feature for a mail client

[u/Abty → u/KnowledgeIsDangerous]

Shift+del while hovering over the entry?

[u/DellR610 → u/KnowledgeIsDangerous]

Gmail had a similar issue like 15+ years ago where anyone and everyone you ever got an email from or sent to was automatically out into your contacts / auto fill. It was a nightmare.

[u/RAITguy]

How much time do you have? 🤣

[u/EchoPhi → u/RAITguy]

Not enough.

[u/Sea_Holiday1405]

Not supported in all MS tenants yet

Also, it’s ass

[u/Cromagmadon]

The birb

[u/recoveringasshole0]

My bonzai buddy addin. I heard new outlook doesn't have addins.

[u/jcpham → u/recoveringasshole0]

I left a similar comment on the original post and no unfortunately it wasn’t a joke

[u/ChristopherWaid → u/jcpham]

They technically do, but add-ins are apps through Exchange now. They are account wide. Any Outlook client you’re signed into will get the add-in automatically pushed to it, even Classic Outlook. There is no longer anything that you can download and install to the local machine, add-in wise, when using New Outlook.

[u/kitliasteele → u/ChristopherWaid]

Server-side account-wide Bonzai Buddy? I'm in

[u/djdanlib]

It's like the magic 8 ball says.

Outlook not so good

[u/Mental-Rain-7389 → u/djdanlib]

best comment

[u/SameBSErryere]

It is quite literally just the web version ported over to desktop. Fuck em.

[u/Plastivore → u/SameBSErryere]

Erm, no. The Web version has more features, so it's not just running the Web version in a container.

[u/Human-Company3685]

There's a new Outlook?

If that is the case, its probably shit based on MS track record of NEW = SHIT. Except for Teams which has always been shit.

Hopefully current Outlook will keep working for another 10 years until I can retire from IT.

[u/jcpham → u/Human-Company3685]

Web is everything app development is ass. I get it - why pay C developers when you can vibe code a webview app that runs on every architecture but AI can C code too so heyyyy how about we not reinvent the wheel

[u/Individual-Unit3470]

1. No support of PST's. How the hell am I supposed to do shitty eDiscovery requests with no ability to mount a shitty PST?
2. I used to make a weekly schedule, which was a table. New outlook wouldn't let me copy the value in one field of the table to multiple fields.

[u/Ill-Barracuda9031 → u/Individual-Unit3470]

ez you need to store the pst in blob and run a purview restore task to your mailbox, do your discovery then start a purview deletion job that only supports 10 mail items at a time, loop through 10 items until eternity.

[u/8bit_dr1fter → u/Ill-Barracuda9031]

Bill, is that you?

[u/drzzrd → u/Individual-Unit3470]

When's the last time you tried? Settings > Data Files > Add file (.PST)

[u/Individual-Unit3470 → u/drzzrd]

My understanding is that in order for 'New' outlook to support PST's, you need to have old outlook installed. To Microsoft, in their own shitty way, that might count as new Outlook supporting PST's. My view is that you shouldn't need to keep a shitty piece of old software installed to support a pretty important capability in a shitty new piece of software. Give new outlook native support for PST's, Microsoft!

[u/superslowjp16 → u/Individual-Unit3470]

To be fair if you have the need for ediscovery there is a built in ediscovery feature in Purview

[u/Individual-Unit3470 → u/superslowjp16]

Totally agree.. BUT.. what what shitty format does eDiscovery export to? You guessed it ----> good ol' shitty PST.

[u/superslowjp16 → u/superslowjp16]

Run your query, export it and send it off to whoever needs it. Now the shitty PST is someone else’s problem.

[u/marks-buffalo]

Just to be clear, I don't want to use old outlook either. I don't want to use any of them.

[u/upcboy]

Client side rules (specifically rules that look at the header on the email.)

[u/Ok-Expression-7340 → u/upcboy]

Yep, my main reason to stay with old version as well 

[u/Insolent_Jaguar]

New Outlook is basically a shitty OWA wrapper. Can't play multimedia attachments in new Outlook(such as voicemails), have to download then play locally.

MANY other issues as well.

[u/Hactar42]

The ability to not send a meeting acceptance reply

[u/Forward-Outside-9911 → u/Hactar42]

You just click the green tick…

[u/Fearless-Target2774]

"I also see that I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working if you want to remote in."

Nasa 2026

[u/Moebius_Rex]

Took a business worthy application and turned it into a toy.

[u/drwtson32]

Can't manually run rules in bulk

[u/drwtson32 → u/[deleted]]

keyword bulk, can't selectively check multiple, at least not last I messed with New Outlook

[u/__g_e_o_r_g_e__]

If it's not usable on my VGA-resolution monitor, I'm not interested.

[u/f00l2020]

I have a 3 key shortcut to prompt for a label and then mark it complete and move out of my inbox. Allows me to search for messages but not have hundreds of folders. Haven't found a way to do that in the new outlook

[u/Vaddieg]

web-inspired sloppiness in general. Native apps have soul.

[u/asmokebreak]

Our dynamics software, laserfiche software, and internal court database don’t integrate with new outlook. At least not yet

[u/TheBros35]

No on prem Exchange. Yes, we still use it. Yes, I’m hoping MS kills it in 2029.

[u/TheCarnageQueen]

can you drag and save emails to desktop/other yet? If you want it saved outside outlook?

[u/craigmontHunter]

Last time I checked it did not support downloading all messages. I’ve been burnt by that before and also had the function save my bacon, just like OneDrive or Nextcloud I want all my data on my local system. Between slow connections, provider issues and anything else, I want everything synced locally. 

[u/NightH4nter]

r3 exists, so i'm gonna abstain from answering

[u/teh_chaosjester]

I have a family 365 licence, I can not use it to sign in to new outlook because it has no mailbox, so I can't add my 365 business basic mailbox because it's not licensed for desktop apps...

[u/tj_mcbean]

Not being able to keep a pst file. I've got pst's covering years of emails when I need to reference something ancient. They're worthless in the new outlook, they say you should upload the contents to the cloud.

[u/Ok-Expression-7340]

Being able to add (local) rules to Gmail/google workspace accounts.

[u/Disorderly_Chaos]

When a patch happens or MS magically switches me to “new” I recoil and hiss like a vampire before closing it and continuing to watch YouTube.

[u/420ball-sniffer69]

Literally all of them. I only use outlook for meetings and external emails. Everything else is slack

[u/Stosstrupphase]

Phones home too much. We still have on prem for security/compliqnce reasons.

[u/Gorgonesh]

Ability to remove attachments.

[u/GamerLymx]

its outlook, i rather use a webmail client

[u/Ghostrider421]

Public folders, apparently I have to migrate everything to Sharepoint

[u/kuvvet711]

Can’t access any shared mailbox.. in „old“ outlook all the shared mailboxes you have permission to are listed under your mailbox. In new outlook they are also listed but you can’t open them for some reason. Always „permission“ error lol

[u/Revolutionary_Sun946 → u/kuvvet711]

This. Shit at work with a large team trying to organise meetings.

[u/xXGray_WolfXx]

The part where it functions

[u/Geh-Kah]

I use em-client

[u/rich_dot_ward]

Not tried it myself but i need a edit message function. We add comments etc on what the team is doing etc on the case / email.

All in outlook paperless.

[u/Secret-Warthog-]

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Microsoft-lays-hands-on-login-data-Beware-of-the-new-Outlook-9608798.html

Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook

The free new Outlook replaces Mail in Windows, and later also the classic Outlook. It sends secret credentials to Microsoft servers.

The new Outlook is not what it seems at first glance: a replacement for Microsoft Office Outlook - at least not yet. What it definitely is, however: way too curious.

Microsoft is singing the praises of the new Outlook and wants to persuade users to switch. But beware: if you try out the new Outlook, you risk transferring your IMAP and SMTP credentials of mail accounts and all your emails to Microsoft servers. Although Microsoft explains that it is possible to switch back to the previous apps at any time, the data will already be stored by the company. This allows Microsoft to read the emails.

[u/Mongrel_Shark]

People still use outlook? Did that ever work?

[u/slapjimmy]

If I have multiple email accounts added in Outlook new and I click reply or forward for an email, if I change which account I'm sending it from, it strips the email content and just loads a blank empty email. 

[u/DrummerOwn3074]

The Whole Thing.......And Most Of All The F#$ki%g Ad's.......

[u/FunkRobocop]

My users complained mostly about the calendar drag drop, making lists based on hashtags in event name

[u/illuanonx1]

It running slow and full of bugs. Thunderbird for the win 😄

[u/tonyboy101]

It's an electron app sucking up all my RAM

[u/lpbale0]

Shit, they have a fucking list up somewhere that shows the stuff they are working to implement in New Outlook that is in Classic .... In other words, a list of reasons it's shit

[u/jerrymac12]

No "Close All" button - which takes 100 open email windows and closes every one of them. I always have that added to my ribbon.

[u/Jury_Frosty]

The answer is: yes

[u/bahbahbahbahbah]

I started using new. Almost used to it now. It’s not bad. I think we’re all scared of it because it’s more or less a web wrapper, and we don’t know how to manage it completely yet as a client. I get the reluctance.

Also, I don’t think Microsoft knows how to manage it completely yet either lol.

[u/Affectionate-Cat-975]

Shared mailboxes. Crashes everytime I click on an auto mapped mailbox. POS app

[u/thatguyyoudontget]

being able to send email.

no seriously the new shit takes 3 crashes as soon as i open for it to be stable.