Outlook on Mac / Mac mail ?

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This may be a dumb question but I'm going to ask it anyway.

If I install Outlook on my iMac, will it connect to my iCloud Mail, grab all the existing folders, etc?

I'm assuming that because it's all server based that it's as simple as that?

amirite?
 
Yeah, it's been £40 on CCC a couple of times but that's the exception rather than the rule.

I bought it today and it doesn't actually do what I want. I have a full complement of aliases on my iCloud account and it seems that the only way to select a different outgoing email address is to manually edit it in Preferences Accounts > Email address

Also there's no archiving. I don't want to archive to a pst but I really want to be able to set up automated pruning on specific folders to delete emails older than a certain date.
 
visibleman said:
Unless you're mail provider is handling archiving, then, as you have found, you're limited to PST exports.
Although arguably you can replicate something similar by using Outlook rules and creating a rule to move mail to an "Archive" folder after X many days.
Similarly, you can create a rule again to delete mail from X,Y,Z folder(s) after X many days.
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visibleman said:
Outlook rules are extremely powerful and it's one way to replicate some server-side functionality that your mail service doesn't provide.
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Actually I can't see any way to a) archive to a pst and b) delete emails over x days.

Rules are applied when messages arrive and I really can't see any way to delete emails from folders after a set period using a rule. I've just spent the last half an hour looking through the rules and simply can't see anything like that at all. Yes, the processing rules within Outlook are far more detailed than on icloud.com but they still don't do what I hoped they would.
 
visibleman said:
To replicate Mac Mail's aliases, set them up as individual accounts, primary and then secondaries (try SMTP only for those), at which point you'll be able to change the FROM field when creating an email.
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That sort of works but each instance I set up downloads a full new copy of the mailbox! Then when I select the consolidated inbox, I see multiple copies of each email because it's pulling in one from each account. It's not possible to set up an account without valid inbox settings so I can't just set them up for outgoing.

I'm not going to use Outlook, unless Microsoft can properly deal with iCloud accounts, it's not worth it for me.
 
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