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View emails in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams shows chats and calls. Is there any way to see the emails in Microsoft Teams too? I mean the emails which are associated with my account and I can check on outlook.com. I could not find any outlook app in Apps.
- If you are wanting notifications in teams there is no way to directly access the activity feed. However you could utilize power automate flows and trigger on new email from the outlook connector and have the Teams Action “post a message as the flow bit to a user” This will send you a chat message from the flow bot letting you know you have a new message, you could even customize the message to include the subject of the email and who it’s from. This should give you a banner notification and chat toast when they come in.
ChrisWebbTech great idea
The only downside of things I see on this proposal is whatever happens after; you would need to go back to outlook to reply unless you create more advanced flow workflows with response capabilities (cards, bots, logic apps, etc.).
The real question is, why would you want to do this, please?
To have only one app?
Well in my company Teams content only requires a simple login. But Outlook app requires registering your device with added software running backend that takes over your phone.
Dimitri_Pletschette , Teams is a pig on memory, doesn’t matter for all the recommended performance adjustments. Outlook opened too, looking at 1.2GB-1.5GB of memory in use, that I need for other things, not chats and emails (and calendar). I have a spare iphone connected to a spare HDTV, and am looking for a way to let that iphone deal with any new messages or chat. And when received then I will open those memory pigs up on Windows to communicate and when done, shut them off and out of my laptops memory. I should not have to be hearing my Surface Book 2 Pro’s fan all day, because of these RAM hog crapplications…that for the most part, are only open for messages. I want a separate new chat/email messages/calendar dashboard that my iphone, which is fan-less, can manage…separate from my laptop…silence is bliss, RAM pollution is not. And neither Microsoft or Apple are very helpful in this regard.
Farhad Mazlumi , I agree, not sure why an Outlook app is not available in Teams.
Having the ability to read the email content and then reply to it on Teams as a chat would be awesome. This way would be easier to 'migrate' the email lovers into Teams.
I am not saying to simply put the Outlook app in there but having an Outlook for Teams like that would be great. If we could update the actual 'Team' and/or channel into it would be even better.
I love doing everything on Teams but find it pretty annoying when people ping me asking "have you seen the email?" and I need to go there and continue the thread on the email instead of Teams itself because if I don't people get lost and think I did not answer.
I agree with @vasil, but if you want to here is how
https://tomtalks.blog/2019/11/adding-outlook-email-and-calendar-app-to-microsoft-teams-a-proof-of-concept/There is no Outlook app, best you can do is add the OWA URI as a "tab", but it's a broken experience. Simply use OWA/Outlook, Teams was not designed to work with email anyway.
There is no Outlook app, best you can do is add the OWA URI as a "tab", but it's a broken experience. Simply use OWA/Outlook, Teams was not designed to work with email anyway.
Is it follow-up of Slack's stupid slogan "Slack the email killer"? Tons of addons and apps for Teams and not the single one to handle emails because it is "passe"? Like you expect everyone to stop using emails next week - they want be able to sign to Teams without email address!
Noook agreed. 2 years later and still no app. It is short-sighted to think the world will stop using email. Unless you NEVER receive email from anyone other than your direct teammates who belong to your Team, you will always need email.
The fact that I have to toggle between Teams and Outlook to be productive throughout the day is probably the one thing that is preventing me from fully embracing Teams. And it is a hinderance in my efforts to engage others. They are used to a world of email, and that is where their comfort zone is. If I had an app where I could see my email, much the way I can see my calendar, I would log on to Teams in the morning and never leave! And I would be able to more easily bring others along with me.
Pernille-Eskebo what are your plans to meet this business need?
VasilMichevAt least, I wish I could see the emails' notifications. Is there any way? Then when I see the email notification, I open outlook.com.
- If you are wanting notifications in teams there is no way to directly access the activity feed. However you could utilize power automate flows and trigger on new email from the outlook connector and have the Teams Action “post a message as the flow bit to a user” This will send you a chat message from the flow bot letting you know you have a new message, you could even customize the message to include the subject of the email and who it’s from. This should give you a banner notification and chat toast when they come in.
