Thank you, Sieghard, for that description. Since I have never used outlook in my life, and was only considering it as an alternative to the changed mail app in iOS 10, I am going to wait. Better the devil you know than the one you don't, especially after your description. Mary
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 13, 2016, at 9:48 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > > Mary, > > I would be careful with Outlook for a little bit longer (I'm sure they fix > these issues) but during the beta cycle and as far as I can tell even in the > last Outlook update which came out yesterday, it is not possible to set up an > Outlook.com account which has 2-step verification enabled. The way this works > is that you have to log into Outlook.com and if you turn on 2-step > verification you have to generate so-called "app specific passwords" for each > instance of Outlook you are running. In my case this means I have Outlook on > at least 2 or 3 PC's and my iPhone so I need to generate 3 or 4 app specific > passwords and use a different one each time I set up my Outlook.com account > on a PC using the Outlook application or whatever other email client you may > use as well as have one for my iPhone. > In addition to that one cannot set up Office 365 accounts which mean I can't > at this point set up my business email account on my iPhone. I think it's > interesting that this hasn't been fixed yet since all of these are Microsoft > services and the Outlook mobile app is a Microsoft app yet you can't use > their own services with it if you have an Office 365 account or use 2-step > verification which is what they recommend. > Furthermore, if your Outlook.com web interface/experience has been upgraded > to the new one it is fantastically inaccessable. The old Outlook.com website > had a few quirks, but it was doiable just fine, the new one not so much. I > have to try it maybe on one of my work computers since I am using a pretty > old PC at home which is rather slow, but going onto Outlook.com just about > makes it grind to a halt. It is on my list of things to do to call Microsoft > Accessibility and do a bit of indignant yelling and complaining, I sure hope > they are going to improve the accessibility for this. Considering their > overall committment to accessibility which actually is pretty good when you > look at Windows 10, especially the anniversary upgrade and many of their iOS > apps and so on I think they'll hopefully do this soon. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Mary Otten > Sent: Monday, September 12, 2016 8:25 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Best Mail Apps > > I have been quite happy with the Mail app up and tell the most recent > iteration on iOS 10. So I have the same question. I'm fine with deleting the > app sending it to the trash forever and ever and ever. But I'm looking for > something that's a little bit more efficient and consistent. Particularly, > I'm thinking of Outlook. I have never used outlook. Maybe somebody will come > out with a podcast or documentation. > Mary > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Sep 12, 2016, at 8:22 PM, kelby carlson <kelbycarl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> All, >> >> I likeApple's default Mail app quite a bit. 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