Outlook Not Syncing
Outlook is not syncing my emails properly. New emails are not coming, and sometimes sent emails stay in the outbox. I also get connection or server error messages. I have checked my internet connection and restarted Outlook, but the problem still continues. Please suggest how to fix this issue.
How do I stop Copilot from adding to my Outlook?
I'm using Outlook Classic, and every day Copilot adds itself to my Outlook. I right-click and select uninstall, but the next day it comes right back. I do not want Copilot. How do I stop Copilot from adding to my Outlook. I've included screenshots to see what I'm talking about. Version: Microsoft® Outlook® for Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2504 Build 16.0.18730.20122) 64-bit
Concern Regarding "Automatically Deleted Without Read" Notifications
I have recently observed that emails I send—even to new recipients—consistently show as "Automatically Deleted Without Read" when I enable Delivery and Read Notifications in Outlook. While delivery is succeeding, the read receipt always indicates the email was deleted without being opened. This is particularly concerning because I use this account exclusively for job applications, and I need to ensure my emails are reaching and being considered by hiring teams. Has anyone encountered this issue before, and are there potential solutions or settings that could be adjusted to prevent this? I am posting this to the Microsoft Outlook Community to seek insights. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
"Scheduling Poll" unintentionally pitted against "Scheduling Assistant ... Why not both?
As a guest invited to a fellow outlook user's scheduling poll, it is unnecessarily difficult to propose additional times that make any sense. It's a strong start towards solving the scheduling problem it's intended to, but it doesn't usually hit the mark, and that's a missed opportunity. Several times, I received a scheduling poll, and each proposed time has already been rejected by one or more required attendees. This is where the "Propose another time" button at the bottom of the poll should help us, . . . Well it's not actually helpful, and will likely generate a lot of email traffic with low chances of helping. I'll explain. The first part of the problem is that there is just no information available about everyone else's schedule. So, how should we expect attendees to propose a reasonable suggestion, even if they are in the same organization and could have had that Free/busy information they need, elsewhere? Going across domains, it makes sense that the information isn't available. But 9 times out of 10, it actually is, because people are using this with people at their workplace. I just would have had to just start over from scratch, although that's bad form because the poll is already in play and this would nominally appear as a conflict. It's also pretty obvious duplicate effort. There just needs to be a better transition between meeting poll and a standard meeting invitation's scheduling assistant view. A person doing that would have to log in if they weren't already, but that seems perfectly fine. Perhaps more importantly, I've got to point out that this is a side-effect of the organizer-as-dictator problem that has been endemic to Outlook & exchange for decades. "FindTime"/"Scheduling Poll" has its place among cross-domain internet email users, but within a work or school environment, it's just good code thrown after bad. The fact that we sometimes need to do a poll before putting any info on the actual calendar is just silly. That's what the calendar is supposed to be for, but locking in the times and making yourself "organizer" just makes the work more awkward. And one last thing, I think it's a mistake that each "Propose another time" sends out another reply-all message. Considering how I described above that we're left just guessing what time could be any good, then sending two or three suggestions in as many separate email messages seems very wasteful. We should be able to set up a few times before saving them and having the poll email re-sent only one more time.
Is MS Places available on Outlook Mac?
Hi there, one of our Mac Users has a problem adding MS Places on the left app bar in Outlook. However, in the MS Teams App he can add it just fine. What could the issue be? MS Places is seemingly still in PRE Phase, is it even currently available for Outlook on Mac? Thanks in advance!
Two Linked Outlook Issues Causing Accidental Emails to Wrong Clients Feature Request + Bug Report
Hi Outlook Community, I'm posting this after a real incident at work where I accidentally sent a confidential email to the wrong client. After reflecting on what went wrong, I've identified two separate but related Outlook issues that compounded the mistake and I want to raise both here so they reach the right people. Bug: Autocomplete Recipient Changes After You Press Enter This one is subtle but dangerous. When you start typing a name in the To/CC/BCC field, Outlook shows an initial autocomplete suggestion. If you press Enter before the search fully resolves, the dropdown refreshes mid-selection and the contact that actually gets added is *different* from the one that was highlighted when you hit Enter. You don't get any warning. You believe you've selected the right person. You haven't. I've submitted this via the Feedback Portal here: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/9a32197e-5424-f111-9730-0022485314bc Suggested fix: Freeze the highlighted contact reference at the moment Enter/Tab is pressed, independent of any ongoing background search refresh. --- Feature Request: Cross-Domain Recipient Warning (like the missing-attachment check) Outlook already warns you before sending if it detects you may have forgotten an attachment. I'd love to see a similar pre-send check for this scenario: You are about to send an email to recipients across 3 different organisations. Did you mean to do this? In consulting, legal, finance, and any client-facing role, it's very easy to accidentally include someone from Client B on an email meant only for Client A especially when contacts share similar names. A configurable domain-count threshold (default: 2 external domains) with a soft confirmation prompt would catch this class of mistake before it becomes a compliance incident. Key asks: - Configurable threshold (user-level) - Domain whitelist support (e.g., always allow your own org + a known partner) - Covers To, CC, and BCC combined - Non-blocking same UX pattern as the attachment warning I've submitted this as a feature request here: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/9a32197e-5424-f111-9730-0022485314bc --- Has anyone else run into either of these? Would love to know if the autocomplete bug is reproducible for others that would help push it up the priority queue. Thanks for reading. Sudharm POutlook not parsing ics invites with rrule BYMONTHDAY=-1 or BYSETPOS=-1 properly
Current Behavior When an ics event is attached or imported as a file, and the rrule contains either BYMONTHDAY=-1 or BYSETPOS=-1, it is not properly converted to the outlook/exchange meeting type and the ics attachment will read as "not supported calendar message". It is possible to work around this by appending an additional semicolon to any property in the rrule string prior to the BYMONTHDAY=-1 or BYSETPOS=-1. However, the workaround above is actually syntactically invalid. Sending .ics invites that contain an rrule with this workaround that are opened in any application other than outlook would fail to be processed. Reproduction environment MacOS Sequoia 15.3.2 (24D81). definitely doesn't matter. using outlook for mac desktop app, outlook web app Reproduction steps See the attached ics invites - note the only difference is the additional semicolon before BYMONTHDAY in the second invite. Save these as files with the .ics extension, and then open them with outlook. Invalid invite - an event that repeats monthly on the last day of the month starting on May 31st for two months. BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:REQUEST X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:726df22a-cc8d-4276-9be9-236f4af16450 SUMMARY:Reserved by user DTSTAMP:20260413T225217Z DTSTART:20260531T050000Z DTEND:20260531T060000Z SEQUENCE:0 DESCRIPTION:hi LOCATION:hi STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: TRANSP:TRANSPARENT X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:FREE ATTENDEE;ROLE="REQ-PARTICIPANT";CN="user":mailto:user@example .com RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=1;COUNT=2;DTSTART=20260531T050000 Z;BYMONTHDAY=-1; END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR Valid invite - same event but with an additional ; before BYMONTHDAY: BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:REQUEST X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:726df22a-cc8d-4276-9be9-236f4af16450 SUMMARY:Reserved by user DTSTAMP:20260413T225217Z DTSTART:20260531T050000Z DTEND:20260531T060000Z SEQUENCE:0 DESCRIPTION:hi LOCATION:hi STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: TRANSP:TRANSPARENT X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:FREE ATTENDEE;ROLE="REQ-PARTICIPANT";CN="user":mailto:user@example .com RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=1;COUNT=2;DTSTART=20260531T050000 Z;;BYMONTHDAY=-1; END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR
Outlook 2016/2021 remains running after CreateObject() from VBA in Version 2412 and later
Hi everyone, I’d like to report a behavior change that affects Outlook (Classic) in Office 2016 and 2021, starting from Version 2412 (Build 16.0.18324.20168). We use VBA to check whether Outlook is installed and configured for sending/receiving mail. We do this at startup of MS Access (2016, 2021 and 365) apps on Windows 11, but I guess this will be the same out of Excel, Word,... . The check is simple and basically does nothing like this: Dim objOutlook As Object On Error Resume Next Set objOutlook = GetObject(, "Outlook.Application") If objOutlook Is Nothing Then bolOutlookIsThere = False Else bolOutlookIsThere = True Set objOutlook = Nothing End If On Error Goto 0 In Build 16.0.18227.20162 (Version 2411) and in Microsoft 365 Outlook, this results in no lasting Outlook process - the instance is released properly. However, starting with Version 2412, this same code causes OUTLOOK.EXE to remain running in Task Manager after execution. The System tray shows up a grayed-out outlook symbol saying "outlook is going to be closed" --- forever. If Outlook had been started manually before running this code, everything works fine, that is: the extra instance will be released and a subsequent manually closing of Outlook will remove the whole. This causes problems in scripts and services that expect to perform a "clean" check without side effects. This same COM automation pattern works exactly as expected with both Excel and Word - they terminate automatically when the last object reference is released (via Set = Nothing), assuming they were not already running. Outlook, however, remains running in memory starting with Version 2412, even though no UI is shown and all references are cleared. This strongly suggests that Outlook now maintains additional internal session state or background services that prevent the process from terminating - unlike other Office applications. Confirmed behavior: Office 2016/2021, Version 2412+ -> OUTLOOK.EXE remains in memory. Office 2016/2021, Version 2411 -> no leftover process. Microsoft 365 Outlook -> behaves as expected. Excel, Word -> behave as expected Can anyone from Microsoft confirm whether this is an intentional change in COM/session behavior (possibly due to caching or MAPI preloading)? If so, is there a recommended workaround for non-interactive detection of Outlook availability? Is anyone else able to duplicate this behavior and/or able to find a workaround (other than downgrading Office to Version 2411)? Thanks in advance!
Office 2021 Classic not showing images in Signatures
Hello I work in IT and trying to find a solution to this problem that our outlook are not showing the images in the signatures. Our Outlook 2021 Version is 2608, Build 16.0.20326.20072. This occurs even when creating a completely new signature and inserting a new local PNG/JPG using Insert Picture. The image initially appears correctly when inserted, but after saving/reopening the signature it becomes a red X with the message "The linked image cannot be displayed. The file may have been moved, renamed, or deleted." Existing signatures have the same problem. Recreating the signature does not resolve it. Here are some details we tried already. BlockHTTPimages is not configured in either the normal Office registry location or the Policies location. Uninstall Reinstalling Office didn't work We are under AD profiles, with new profiles and even rebuilding current profiles didn't solve it. Attempted a full reset of windows 10/11 didn't work. This appears to be an Outlook/Word signature-image regression rather than a corrupted signature or externally hosted image. Per Microsoft status that this should've been resolved back in June but the issue still persisted. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/support/known-issues/images-are-not-displayed-in-emails-newsletters-or-signatures-in-classic-outlook?utm_source=chatgpt.com I did try using ChatGPT to help with the issue. I will share the thread link here if you wish to look into of all troubleshoots that was attempted. https://chatgpt.com/share/6aac0312-a08c-83ea-b1a8-2192b3677136 If anyone has any better knowledge of finding a solution as we have reported this issue to Microsoft via the help feature in outlook classic, but gotten no response since the last month since the issue started.
