Provide a feature to Customize Account Names for email accounts configured in Microsoft Outlook 2016
Provide a feature to Customize Account Names for email accounts configured in Microsoft Outlook 2016 maintaining case as well as re-arrange their order in navigation pane. similar to Windows 10 Mail app. Also It would be helpful for those who are visual to have the option to change the background color of each mailbox, (Inbox, Sent, and Trash), to avoid confusion when quickly navigating between them.
Nicholas D. Johnson
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Anonymous
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Why was it removed - As an improvement, it makes no sense.
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Yves Peter
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Do you hear us? we need this feature
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Anonymous
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Using MFCMAPI to change name only the change is not persistent is most annoying. Please make this change permanent and more user friendly
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Anonymous
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Please restore the ability to customize account names within the Outlook client when an Exchange mailbox, as is possible for POP and IMAP
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jordan schofield
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If you can't get the basics right, more people will move to Apple. Why do we have to put up with long truncated email addresses?
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r_robinson@hotmail.com
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Adding my voice for this feature. I am a systems administrator for lots of companies and this issue is a thorn in my side. So much so that I have convinced a few clients to switch to Thunderbird if they dont require all of the features of outlook so that I wont have to respond to this as an issue.
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PedroStephano
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The inablility to customize names of mailboxes in an app that is basically an email aggregator is non-sensical - I use Outlook 365 for twelve email addresses, ten of which have sensible labels (sensible to me - it's MY label!) and two of which are horrible icckky yukky email addresses that I can't edit. Surely it's possible to make their handle an editable field? Constantly, daily it's an annoyance that this is not so. Make it so. Please.
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paul_cremin@hotmail.com
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Can't believe this isn't available in a professional business tool. Anyone know if Gmail does it?
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Anonymous
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I want to rename the mail account in Outlook but am unable to do so. This feature will help as it would ID the account rather than an email address
I also use an iMac with Microsoft Outlook and it can be done in that system -
Gabriel Meira
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I can rename all my accounts, but i can´t rename my 2 Microsofts accounts name. That results in a big and unnecessary classification. Please let us rename it.
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Jon
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Please...…………..
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Anonymous
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Ridiculous that the functionality to edit/rename account identifiers in the 'favorites' block exists for my non-Microsoft email accounts (and I have implemented it without issue), whilst it is not possible for my 365 email account ...
Get it sorted! -
Mark .
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This was a KEY FEATURE - please reinstate in Outlook 2019
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Ben Krause
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I would like to see this as well so that if we change the name of a user on the exchange server, that change is reflected in their outlook program. People get real testy when their last name changes because of getting married or divorced, and their old name still shows as the header of their outlook email folder list.
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Anthony D. Green
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OMG I was able to change mine by first creating the mailbox in the Windows 10 Mail Control Panel. After setting it up but before opening Outlook, I navigated the the Registry keys described in this article. https://www.slipstick.com/exchange/primary-account-removed-outlook/
I found the reference to the account email address and updated them to what I wanted it to display (a different email address) then opened up Outlook and the mailbox used that name rather than the email I logged in with. This was critical to me because my outlook.com email address is a very strange GUID (garbled number) and not the email address I normally send/receive with. So I wanted the Mailbox to use that name and not the one on outlook.com's servers. I can usually login to MS services with either address though.
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pierreleg@hotmail.com
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I have 4 accounts all IMAP and my PC Outlook interface looks horrible.
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Anonymous
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Please add this. We really need it.
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Jeff
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As of Outlook 2016, Office 2019 and Office 365 Build 1806, the MFCMAPI method is no longer persistent and eventually your custom display name will be overwritten again with your primary SMTP address.
I would like to be able to customize my account name for email accounts configured in Microsoft Outlook 2016.
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RobMan
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Please provide this feature. I NEED THIS!!!
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howsjewdoin
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post has been up since 2017 and this still isn't a thing? embarrassing.
