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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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.
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Anonymous
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3.5 years later - MS please, this seems like a rather simple quick-win fix, since most others manage this fine -- even the basic Win10 mail program!
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Anonymous
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See Rename Mailbox for Outlook tool: https://www.ivasoft.com/renamemailbox.shtml
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Liz
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Outlook names your email account and mailbox folder set after your email address. This results in quite large display names please allgo to rename mailboxes in Outlook 365
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Patrick Thomas
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3 year, 293 comments (this one makes 294), and 862 upvotes and no progress. This is such a programmatically SIMPLE thing to add. I could add it in a matter of minutes. Seriously MS, this is BS. It's such a ridiculously basic feature for a multi-account app. Literally ALL of the competing apps have it. Why is this not a feature yet???
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John Hoehn
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It is inconvenient to not have nicknames for email accounts different from the account name. Please remedy this for user convenience.
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Dave Kenney commented
Please allow for Exchange name in folder window to be altered or renamed. This cryptic "outlook_w9[e899;shfpe@outlook.com" is useless, especially when I can have the other email accounts named appropriately for easy glance identity.
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cpk
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This is why I hate updating; because ms makes changes/removes useful functions for the single/non-business user without much thought. I guess as long as businesses can make the change (which they can using the ms 365 admin center, which isn't offered to non-business users) you are ok with it...
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P Saunders
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Please restore this function, it is really annoying when useful features are removed from apps.
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Yvan
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Definitely a must have! Please make this happen. Don't understand why it has been removed.
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Jamie Passalacqua
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Looking to roll out a org wide domain change, would be great to have a feature to do this change automatically, and not use MCMAPI
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Andrew Wade
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Very much need this as a proper user name rather than the clunky email address looks more professional.
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Alexa
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Definitely a must have! Please make this happen. Don't understand why it has been removed.
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Will
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This feature would be very VERY much appreciated!
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Anonymous
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This feature would be very helpful to me as well
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Berten Vandebroek
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I need to make the folder pane very wide just to see which account to click. Please fix this. How hard can it be?
longfirstname.longlastname@domaincustomerone.com
longfirstname.longlastname@domaincustomertwo.com
longfirstname.longlastname@domaincustomerthree.com
longfirstname.longlastname@domaincustomerfour.com -
Fabio Spanti
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Please add/restore this
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Mike Reynolds
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It is rather silly that I have to have my full email address as the display name. If I expanded the side menu to actually be able to read it, plus the inbox list, plus the reading pane and then also the task list.... You see the problem?
Please restore this functionality as soon as possible. As I said at the start of this message. It's just silly as it is. Thanks.
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Anonymous
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If allowing users to change folder names to something more suitable than the email address - even using MFCMAPI which the average Outlook user should NOT be using, why not allow each folder to have an optional alias allowed or not allowed by Group Policy. i find it difficult to believe that the way it now works is intentional; perhaps, being charitable, it is a side-effect of another change, but for heavens sake fix it!!
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DH
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Please fix this
