This also strikes me as pretty bad. The application that New Outlook is replacing was more of a regular IMAP client and managed mail locally, making this new be

This also strikes me as pretty bad. The application that New Outlook is replacing was more of a regular IMAP client and managed mail locally, making this new behavior a big departure. Also: how long does Microsoft expect this to work? If I was Google, I'd think about banning IMAP logins from the Azure servers that are doing this syncing.