I asked this a year or two ago I think.

Basically, I want an imap email client that is web based. Doesn't have to unify the inbox, but I just want to be able to log in once, and see all my email accounts.

Once upon a time I used gmail, but didn't like the pop only.

I then used outlook.live.com and that was great, for a while. But one day I think MS changed something, and half of my email accounts stopped updating and nothing I've tried has seemed to get them to work again.

I then moved to AltoMail, which was a bit clunky, but at least it did what I wanted. However, they're shutting the service down due to the company being bought out.

Bluemail was recommended ages ago, the app is great, and a web client is promised, but I've been signed up for the beta for ages and nothing has materialised.

it may be worth setting up outlook again.
I guess maybe the switch o outlook365 caused the issue?

Outlook is terrible and janky, whoever is behind the new interface has made a real hash of it, don't bother. Gmail supports IMAP now.

Source: Use Gmail and Outlook at work for personal and test accounts.

Gmail supports Imap for it's own servers, but when importing external accounts it'll only do it via pop3? Or did I miss something?

No you're absolutely right I must have been thinking Gmail only access, not sure what planet I was on for a moment! External accounts have to use POP.

Think I'll just have to accept that for emails, when I'm on the go I'll have to use my phone. When I'm at home at least I can use a client like Outlook or Thunderbird.

If I absolutely need to write a long email from another computer I can just log in to that email accounts webmail :/

Well in an interesting twist...I noticed that the IMAP folder structure of the two funky accounts included some sub-folders called inbox and other similar things. Nothing was in them and I figured they must have been created when outlook or another program was being set up.

I deleted them, re-added the accounts to outlook (selecting the option to not create any new folders in case that's what did it last time), and it seems to be working.

Quote from: zpyder on November 18, 2017, 22:51:46 PM
Well in an interesting twist...I noticed that the IMAP folder structure of the two funky accounts included some sub-folders called inbox and other similar things. Nothing was in them and I figured they must have been created when outlook or another program was being set up.

I deleted them, re-added the accounts to outlook (selecting the option to not create any new folders in case that's what did it last time), and it seems to be working.

So like I said...


it may be worth setting up outlook again.