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2025-08-03 13:52 UTC

@imsop@tech.lgbt @zanchey@aus.social Wait, is outlook(the current non 365 one) successor of hotmail, not old outlook (which was a mail service and a mail management website)? I don't remember hotmail having imap or anything i was 10 when hotmail was a thing iirc, the latest 365 outlook doesn't either but the middle outlook allows imap. I probably made 20 mistakes in 2 posts i stop posting about outlook, i don't know enough i will read and learn (setting up outlook is part of my job).

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@imsop@tech.lgbt 2025-08-03 16:10

@void@mastodon.sdf.org @zanchey@aus.social I'm not sure what you mean by "old Outlook", but in 1997, Outlook was a desktop-only client for Microsoft Exchange, and HotMail was a web-only internet e-mail client. Exchange was primarily for in-company communication, with an internet gateway bolted on (and it showed). Microsoft have a habit of using the same name for different thnigs, and different names for the same thing, so it all gets a bit muddled from there. If you opened a HotMail account when it launched, and kept it open, it would now be branded Outlook. Meanwhile, the desktop client no longer has a local database synced over a proprietary protocol, it's just an HTML-based client for an online service. So I've no idea if the implementation has anything in common with either, but what Microsoft now calls "Outlook" feels a lot more like a web-mail service with bells and whistles, than the original proprietary messaging system.

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