• rgb3x3@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Why is someone using Outlook to sync a different email address?

    Why not keep the apps separate? Or use the Mail app built into Windows?

    Seriously, someone explain the use case here because I don’t understand. If you’re using an outlook account, MS already has all that stuff. And if you don’t have an Outlook account, why are you using Outlook?

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      1 year ago

      Why is someone using Outlook to sync a different email address?

      Outlook is an email client. It can work with any email provider. The fact that they started calling the server-side “Outlook” as well has made things super confusing.

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      1 year ago

      Or use the Mail app built into Windows?

      So the gist is the default mail app is being “upgraded” by Microsoft to Outlook for Windows app, so your account credentials previously stored in the mail app now got uploaded into the cloud.