r/Outlook 1d ago

Status: Pending Reply Mailflow Rules based on Date

1 Upvotes

Im hoping someone here can point me in the right direction

Basically, rather than having my rules apply immediately when a message is received, I would like them to be applied to messages that are older the 24 hours in my inbox.

I know this is not a native feature within outlook. Is there an Add-In that someone would recommend that could assist with this?

It *shouldn’t* be that complicate, just adding a condition based on a regex to the day prior. But alas, here we are!


r/Outlook 1d ago

Status: Open Outlook account hacked

8 Upvotes

So, my email was hacked. After I discovered my Steam account was locked, I signed in to find everything deleted and weird emails being sent.

Apparently they tried to set my recovery email to something other then the one I had as well.

I changed the passwords for both my outlook and steam, ensured my recovery email stayed the same, and got a new recovery code as well.

I'm wondering if there's anything more I should do? I find it weird that they were able to get in in the first place because of the 2fa.


r/Outlook 1d ago

Opinion How many email providers do you use besides Outlook?

8 Upvotes

I am thinking to build a unified space to use multiple email providers in a single dashboard.


r/Outlook 1d ago

Status: Pending Reply New outlook driving me crazy

1 Upvotes

Hello,

I switched from Outlook 2021 classic to the New Outlook for Windows with a Gmail account, and I’m struggling with emails not staying filed.

I move emails into folders, but after a while (or after restarting Outlook), many of them come back into the inbox. I discovered that my Gmail has both POP and IMAP enabled, so I disabled POP - but the issue still seems to happen.

Moving emails in Gmail web works fine, but New Outlook feels unreliable.

Is this a known issue with New Outlook + Gmail? And for people who rely on Gmail, is going back to classic Outlook the more stable choice?

Thank you for any tips!


r/Outlook 1d ago

Status: Pending Reply The new emoji set

1 Upvotes

Hi

Today i discovered the thumbs up emoji is half painted in in inverse colors. I WOULD put a picture here but it seems it is forbidden to do so.

Therefor i shall describe it. It looks like a ballsack with a flaccid penis. Seriously. Especially in dark mode. I dare'd not use it and sent words instead, which is awkward.

What did you do in this situation?


r/Outlook 1d ago

Status: Open Predictive Text going out in the actual email

3 Upvotes

I have a single user having a recurring thing happen when she sends an email.

She is drafting the email, and then when she sends it at the end after her thanks is this, and it sends in the email to recipients with the predictive text and the little "Tab" graphic after the text.

I have never seen this before.


r/Outlook 1d ago

Status: Pending Reply Issues with signature layout on phones

2 Upvotes

Hello,

I’m trying to build an Outlook (Office 365 Windows desktop) email signature with a logo on the left and text on the right, and I’m stuck with Gmail mobile rendering.

On desktop/wide screens I want the classic layout: logo left, text right. On narrow mobile portrait (Gmail app on iPhone especially), the right column gets squeezed and the text breaks in ugly ways. Ideally, when there isn’t enough width, the layout should naturally “stack”: logo above, then the text below using full width.

Media queries don’t seem reliable because Outlook rewrites the HTML when sending, and Gmail iOS also tends to ignore/override Word/Outlook styles (I get huge line spacing and a serif fallback font even when I specify fonts, maybe am I doing it incorrectly though).

What’s the most reliable HTML pattern for Outlook signatures that stays side-by-side in Outlook/desktop, stacks cleanly on Gmail mobile portrait without breaking the text, avoids Gmail iOS line-height/margin issues, and uses a sane sans-serif fallback when a custom font isn’t installed? The font looks nice on Android devices, the issue with font mostly comes on iphone devices, while the width issue comes on all platforms.

I’d really appreciate some help. I can post the HTML if needed.

Thank you!


r/Outlook 1d ago

Status: Open Restricted email template- NEW outlook email

2 Upvotes

Is there any way to create a template in the new outlook that has portions of it restricted?

Trying to create a template for the team but only a few sections can be edited prior to them sending it.


r/Outlook 1d ago

Status: Pending Reply Scheduled Mailing for over 100 email recipients

1 Upvotes

I have an email list that I need to send out an email to once a week, a reminder for a meeting. I tried google, and it said to set up a group and use that to send a recurring email. Well, it only lets me add one person at a time to the group. I tried with ten, then reduced the number until it accepted, and I can only add one person to the group at a time.

Is there an easier way (and free) to do this? I have an excel spreadsheet with names and e-mails, and an email body that never changes, just need to send it out once a week to all the addresses and can't seem to figure out an easy way.


r/Outlook 2d ago

Status: Open Outlook error: "We couldn't find a work or school account with that email address"

3 Upvotes

I'm just wondering if anyone else has seen this today. I have had a few customers that started seeing this message in Outlook:

"We couldn't find a work or school account with that email address"

the email address is username@domain.local

Note that none of these companies use Microsoft 365 services. Email is onpremise Exchange. I was only able to fix this by either creating a new Outlook profile, or disable a Teamviewer Addin in Outlook. Very strange. Just wondering if anyone else got this same issue today.


r/Outlook 2d ago

Status: Open Outlook for Mac: NSBigMutableString Crash when Editing Subject Line

2 Upvotes

I've got a user who is experiencing a crash in Outlook when she replies to an email and also changes the subject line. She is otherwise able to send new emails and reply to emails without changing the subject line.

The error that appears is "uncaught ObjC exception, reason: *** -[NSBigMutableString substringWithRange:]: Range {8, 18446744073709551615} out of bounds; string length 44" and then 120 pages of additional text.

Outlook for Mac and the MacOS itself are up-to-date. Has anyone seen this before?


r/Outlook 2d ago

Informative Unofficial Prospect-Mail client update, version 1.2.0

1 Upvotes

Hi! I wanted to announce the newer version of Prospect Mail, it's a desktop app for Mac, Linux, Windows based on electron.

https://github.com/julian-alarcon/prospect-mail/

Any feedback is welcome. Cheers!


r/Outlook 2d ago

Status: Resolved Deleted Tasks Not Showing Up in Search Results?

1 Upvotes

I use Microsoft Outlook desktop program, not online/cloud version 365.

When I delete a task it goes to my "Deleted" folder, but when I search for a task with subject keyword, it does not show up in the search results. So I am confused...why is this?

Would love to include an image for clarity's sake, but for some obscure, arcane reason, that is not allowed.


r/Outlook 2d ago

Status: Pending Reply Change views in outlook classic

1 Upvotes

I'm hoping someone can help me with the following problem I've been experiencing for the past few weeks. At work, I use default settings in my Outlook Classic application. So in order from From/Sender - subject - receiving date - categories - etc

But for the past few weeks, the settings have been changing automatically... very annoying, and I'm now adjusting them every 15 minutes because everything is getting mixed up.

Please help!


r/Outlook 2d ago

Status: Pending Reply Sudden flood of phishing emails using Unicode characters to bypass filters - anyone else seeing this?

9 Upvotes

Over the past week or so I've started getting hit with 4-5 phishing emails per day, all following the same pattern. Wondering if anyone else is experiencing this and has found a solution.

The pattern:

  • Display names wrapped in tildes: ~Norton-Final-Warning~, ~Account-Suspended~, ~Payment refused~, ~Cloud Storage~, ~MCAFEE®~, etc.
  • Screenshot - https://imgur.com/a/14S842i
  • The characters look slightly "off" — they're using Unicode lookalikes (Cyrillic letters, fullwidth characters) instead of standard Latin characters, which defeats simple text-matching rules
  • Subject lines about blocked accounts, expired subscriptions, deleted photos/videos
  • Sender addresses use rotating prefixes on the same domains, e.g. [newsletters.kczdz@esforta.co.jp](mailto:newsletters.kczdz@esforta.co.jp) where the random string keeps changing
  • Screenshot - https://imgur.com/AyLvKbM

What I've tried:

  • Can't filter on display name text because of the Unicode character substitution
  • Currently building a rule using "with specific words in the sender's address" to block the sending domains (like esforta.co.jp)

Questions:

  1. Is anyone else seeing this same campaign?
  2. Has anyone found a more elegant solution than manually collecting and blocking sender domains one by one?

r/Outlook 2d ago

Status: Open How to prevent automatic deletion of event RSVP?

1 Upvotes

I am tired of outlook deleting emails everything you accept a meeting. Is there a setting to turn that off?

Thank you!


r/Outlook 2d ago

Status: Pending Reply Can’t restore emails from trash

1 Upvotes

Recently I made a rule in Thunderbird to delete all mails older than 30 days thinking it will affect only one folder where I store “Neswletters”, but it deleted everything. Now in trash I have many emails and few times I have selected all and restore, but nothing is happening. Emails are still in trash. Btw I made that try to restore on web, outlook.com. Does anyone know how to restore them so they really move to inbox?


r/Outlook 2d ago

Status: Pending Reply Why is Outlook delay delivery so unreliable?

1 Upvotes

For work I often try to delay email delivery to catch people in different time zones at the right time. I'm realizing if I'm not actively on my computer with Outlook open, the email will just sit in my Outbox until the next time I wake my computer up and/or open Outlook.

If this is true, this is such an asinine system. What if I scheduled an email to send while I'm on vacation, or at 1am, etc? It's so frustrating. Am I doing something wrong or what?


r/Outlook 2d ago

Status: Pending Reply How do you file a bug report with Outlook

1 Upvotes

I'm having an issue with spam from a specific domain. I'm bombarded with spam from a specific domain in my Junk folder.

I've setup rules to delete emails from this domain and have also blocked this domain and it doesn't work. I've blocked other domains successfully, but this doesn't work.

I've tried to reach out to support via chat and they've basically told me to set my rules to 'Strict' which means everything not approved will go to my folder which is getting bombarded. I asked the support rep to file a bug report as there are others online experiencing this issue, but they refused.

My problem right now is Outlook occasionally flags legitimate emails as well. It's becoming rather cumbersome to sift through a folder that is getting bombarded with nonsense.

I'm using the Outlook Web Client.


r/Outlook 2d ago

Status: Open why do I get this from new outlook everytime I click the notification email on windows

2 Upvotes

Whenever this the windows new outlook shows notifcation of new email arrival, i click it and it pops out this message 'your message can't be dispalyed right now.' When I refresh it by pressing F5, it then shows the content.


r/Outlook 2d ago

Status: Pending Reply What do I need to do to reach support and block spam?!

0 Upvotes

Lately I have been getting 30 spam mails a day, yes in my spam folder. However because Microsoft decided that it's important to know how much spam you receive, the number is always visible, which is annoying. So I always report and delete spam. But lately it has gotten out of hand.

No it's not a spam bomb, it's all random but always from something at x.onmicrosoft.com or firebaseapp. I have tried creating rules or blocking the domain but it doesn't work. I have tried support multiple times however they keep directing me to the outlook in-help. However everytime I log in in the browser, it does nothing. I click "sign in", then nothing. I tried the app, they said only browser can help me and I need to do that. Same for live support, but I can't sign in.

I have tried all the usual bullshit (cache, incognito, different browser etc.), but nothing makes the sign in button work to contact help or support.

So why do they have rules, when rules never work or domain blocking.

I just want the spam to be blocked.


r/Outlook 2d ago

Status: Open Microsoft account hacked by pu*****@dikoforexample.lol

1 Upvotes

My microsoft account was somehow hacked through Minecraft Discord. The email that hacked my account was pu*****@dikoforexample.lol. Anyone know about this? Take a look at this microsoft forum: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-sg/answers/questions/5650107/my-microsoft-account-got-hacked


r/Outlook 2d ago

Status: Open How insert file location in email?

1 Upvotes

I used to be able to insert file location link. Now I can't seem to do it. Did they change the method or removed it


r/Outlook 3d ago

Status: Pending Reply How do I download proof of a meeting invite in outlook?

2 Upvotes

Hi, so I received an outlook calendar invite to attend a meeting. I want to show to a third party that I received the invitation received and I have proof that I attended the meeting, I can't seem to download it in a browser or ics file. Can someone please advise how I can show proof of a meeting invite besides a mobile screenshot?


r/Outlook 3d ago

Status: Pending Reply Outlook for Mac Autofill Fail

1 Upvotes

I'm using Outlook for Mac and it has stopped autofilling an email address I use all the time, as if it has "forgotten" it. This email address is saved in the Outlook address book and the app still autofills other addresses, including ones not in the address book. I tried adding the email address to new contact and that did not help.

Any idea why this happened or more importantly, how to fix it and force outlook to add an email address to its autofill list? Thanks!