Unified inbox in New Outlook

For years the answer to “how do I see all my Outlook accounts at once” was a VBA macro: paste some code into the editor, add a button to the toolbar, click it to run a search across every mailbox. It worked, in the sense that a workaround works.

New Outlook doesn’t support VBA macros. There is no editor to paste into. Everyone who was relying on that trick and gets moved to New Outlook loses it, with no replacement setting to turn on.

Go back to Classic Outlook. The toggle is in the top right. The macro works again. This is free and it is a real answer — but you are choosing an app Microsoft is winding down, and you inherit every limitation below.

Use search instead of a macro. In the search bar, switch the scope to All Mailboxes and search something like received:(this week). Save it to your favourites. No macros, no security prompt. It is also manual, and the saved search tends to reset its scope back to the current mailbox.

Forward everything into one mailbox. Free, works in any client. The catch is replies: everything you send now goes out from the mailbox you forwarded into, not from the address the customer wrote to.

• It doesn’t refresh. New mail arrives and the view doesn’t change until you click the button again — so you still have to remember to check.
• It requires enabling macros, which also lets other macro code run. Microsoft warns against the “enable all” setting for good reason.
• It can’t fix replying. Managing several addresses and having Outlook consistently send from the right one is a separate, unsolved problem.
• It only exists on that one machine. Your phone gets nothing.

If you want the full comparison — saved searches, rules, the phone app — we listed every Outlook method and where each one breaks.

All Your Inboxes sits outside the email client entirely, which is why New Outlook, Classic Outlook, Gmail, or a phone all work the same. Each mailbox forwards a copy to us. When mail arrives you get a notification at whatever address you actually read, tagged with which project it came from.

Reply to that notification and your answer goes out through the original mailbox’s own server — so the recipient sees info@yourdomain.com, in the same thread, with no trace of us.

Nothing about your Outlook setup changes. No macros, no security prompts, no merged folder structure. Your mailboxes keep working exactly as they do now; we only ever see a copy.