Outlook/ Mac Mail conflict

Good Morning!
I have recently installed MS Office on my Mac Book Pro and want to use Outlook as the default mail provider.
All seems fine for outgoing mail, it sends fine but incoming mail arrives in Mac Mail not Outlook, despite ticking the default mail setting button in Outlook Preferences....it seems that Mac Mail is overriding outlook!
Sure I'm doing something silly....what do you think ??
Thanks in advance.
Chef..

Chef113 wrote:
Good Morning!
I have recently installed MS Office on my Mac Book Pro and want to use Outlook as the default mail provider.
All seems fine for outgoing mail, it sends fine but incoming mail arrives in Mac Mail not Outlook, despite ticking the default mail setting button in Outlook Preferences....it seems that Mac Mail is overriding outlook!
Sure I'm doing something silly....what do you think ??
Thanks in advance.
Chef..
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A conflict between program Mac mail and program Microsoft Outlook e-mail?
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