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Can i run Apple Mail and Microsoft Outlook on my MacBook pro at the same time?
I always used Apple Mail and I like it. However I started a new job recently, and due to nature of work Outlook seems to be a better mail client for organising received emails. So I'm thinking of using Outlook for work email account, and Apple mail for private email accounts (I have 2 or 3 different ones)
Thank you
Gregor
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 12.6
hmm, not sure if we understand eachother correctly.. few points:
1) Outlook has a feature called "Categories" and it seams great for organising received (but only partially dealt with) emails. I can't find nothing similar in Apple Mail. So I would like to use Outlook for work email account
2) I'm very much used to Apple Mail, and would like to keep using it for all non work related email accounts.
3) if I understand you correctly I can not run both mail clients at the same time, but I could run Apple mail. Close it, and then start Outlook, and vice versa?
4) additional question: If I have only Outlook on my MacBook, can I keep using Apple Mail on my iPhone and iPad? All mail (IMAP accounts) will still work in the same way?
Let me try to clarify the part that seems to be misunderstood.
You can have both Mail and Outlook open at the same time, and each handling different accounts, as you said you wanted to do. It should work fine.
The only “restriction” that I alluded to is this: suppose you are visiting a website and it has a link that says “Contact us”, and that link is to open an e-mail message addressed to the holders of the site. When you click, an e-mail program opens - which one? The one that you set as the default.
There is nothing stopping you from doing just what you asked, AFAICT.
You add your e-mail accounts as usual, in System Preferences->Internet Accounts.
In Mail, you can make “inactive” the work accounts, so ut only checks the mail for your personal ones.
I don’t use Outlook but I imagine it can do something similar.
Note: there is only one “default” mail application. This is tge application that will open if you click on a link that is to send mail. But this does not affect using both for checking mail, replying, etc
You set the default mail application in Mail->Preferences->General.
You can run as many email clients as you like at the same time. Just configure each with the email account(s) you want to use with that client. You can only have one of the email clients configured as your default email client. So if you click on an email link in a web page or whatever, the default email client will open. You can use whatever email client you want on each device.
Thank you Bob and Luis!
I found this in an older post in this Apple community. Could this be a problem?
"On the other hand if you have two different mail clients then, yes, both could be run at the same time. But for mail clients even doing that there's a chance for a bit of confusion if both mail clients attempt to access the mail server at the exact same time (one is going to be locked out by the other at that moment -- well, I think that is true)."
Not a problem. You will not configure the same email accounts on both email clients. They will not be accessing the same account at the same time. And even if they did, servers can handle that through queuing etc.
Mmeekk1111 wrote:
If I run, Apple email and MS outlook concurrently, using the same email account, will duplicate the volume of email and related content sitting on my MacBook Pro?
So your question is different from that of the original poster. It is better to post a new, separate question when you are asking about something different.
That said, yes, if you run Apple Mail and MS-Outlook both on the same Mac and both using the same email account, each will keep its own data base with all the same emails, which means you will basically double the space needed on your Mac for the same email messages. I once did this as an experiment. It does work, and the storage taken is about double. Not exactly double because Apple and Microsoft store the emails and attachments differently. But yes, basically double.
I didn’t say you can’t run both at the same time. You CAN.
If this is the only concern, then I have NO problems!
Thank you very much!! :)
Thank you very much as well!!
If I run, Apple email and MS outlook concurrently, using the same email account, will duplicate the volume of email and related content sitting on my MacBook Pro?
Apple mail and Microsoft outlook running on same MacBook
