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Save/attach from emails in MS Outlook 2016 to SharePoint site
- This is now possible using the Outlook Desktop and modern browsers - take a look: https://jonasbjerke.wordpress.com/2019/09/06/you-can-now-drag-e-mails-from-outlook-directly-to-sharepoint/
The problem(s) persists but alternatives have become available. There are SharePoint Apps that act when a user adds one or more emails to SharePoint. See e.g., https://directory.collab365.com/office365-sharepoint/sharepoint-email-management-software/ and https://directory.collab365.com/listing/slim-companion-email-manager/.
The Apps automatically extract email metadata like From, To, Subject, ... during uploading and populate the corresponding SharePoint columns. This then allows for sorting, filtering and searching. For example, users can search for emails in SharePoint using the familiar Outlook syntax like From:microsoft. This is fully transparent for end-users and requires no training/instructions: all they need to do is upload the emails via drag and drop from Outlook or use the standard SharePoint "Upload" button.
Some tools even provide additional functionality such as generate a unique name for the email based on the email metadata, show email previews in the browser, allowing viewing of email attachments (pdf, docx, jpg, ...) directly shown in the browser, ...