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View emails in Microsoft Teams
- 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.
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?
Rebecca2468 I'm not sure where that ends, don't you also need to toggle to Office apps, web browsers and business applications through the day? Even if it was inside Teams wouldn't you need to be toggling between a view of email and the view of chats/teams, isn't that going to be easier through the task bar in Windows/Mac?
This feature request was considered by Microsoft carefully, but they decided to decline it, see Enable access to email from left tab panel · Community (microsoft.com)
- I guess it depends on an individual's work style and preferences. Having the app available would cater to the widest variety of needs because those who do not prefer it can simply not use it.
I have just come off of a week in which I would have almost never had to leave Teams. But I had to, to check my email. I feel it slowed me down significantly. And there are people in my org who are simply more comfortable in email at this point. There are only so many times that you want to keep forwarding emails to Teams.
