Outlook 2011 for Mac allows you to have your multiple mailboxes managed from a single view, which makes a lot easier to the end user to view many accounts without the need of navigating to each one of them to see their content...

When it comes to the Outlook 2013, it's quite a night mare to keep up with the way it was "designed" since each IMAP profile has its own ost file, therefore we can't find a way to combine the unread / deleted items from all mailboxes in a single place to easy access for reviewing them...

Is there any workaround available, even through VBA that could fix this?

I found quiet ironic that 90% of Outlook users are Windows based, but this very important feature is only native in an Apple's environment!

So far what we have done to minimize the pain, was to create individual Unread Mail search folders for each mailbox and placed in the favorites, but we still have to go to each of them in order to read them...

• Moved by Fei XueMicrosoft contingent staff Friday, January 23, 2015 5:47 AM

Hello,

The Outlook object model doesn't provide anything for that. You can keep using search folders for each mail account. Also you may write a macro which can copy unread emails into a single folder. But in that case you will get a copy of the message. Is it what you are looking for?

This is very disappointing to see how Microsoft is caring more for the users in Apple's environment than to their own OS loyal followers... What we are after here is noting more than the same features already developed to the Mac version!

Perhaps Apple demanded to have a software with functionality similar to their native app that can be really considered "user friendly"!

No, we are NOT seeking for rules/macros to COPY the message into a single folder therefore making even harder the mailboxes management, hence it completely defies the purposes of IMAP... 

Microsoft needs to realize that today's users require multiple email accounts for different purposes, but the current model of Outlook (Windows) for data management is completely outdated!

Hello Marcio,

It seems different teams worked on Outlook for Mac and Windows. Anyway, I'd suggest leaving your feedback.

Be aware, the current forum is for developers. I'd recommend asking non-programming questions on the Outlook IT Pro Discussions forum instead.

Hi,

I can confirm Search Folders cant contain search results from multiple Outlook Data Files in Outlook 2013, if the unread/deleted items are in different Accounts, we need to view them via the Search Folder for each account. One good thing about this design is we won't mess up emails in different accounts, but I understand this brings you some difficulties right now.

Although the design meets most users' needs, however it is still not perfect. Please be assured that any improvements in the product are based on users' requirements. Our developers strive to capture Microsoft users' ideas and are working hard to create a more powerful and easy-to-use product.

Regards,

Melon Chen

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