Outlook snooze email5/29/2023 ![]() Mobile Outlook and Web clients on or Office 365– Mail disappears and shows up again at the allotted time, right at the top of the mailbox. Windows Mail client with or Office 365 – Zip. if you Snooze a 9am email from the web app until 1pm, it will move into the Scheduled folder – but when it moves back into the Inbox, the Outlook and Windows Mail clients will show it down at 9am again so you might as well flag it and be done. If you snooze an email from another client, it will disappear from Inbox, but when it reappears, it’ll be in the same place as it was before – eg. Outlook client and Office 365 – there is no snooze feature. Let’s compare to some other Microsoft clients & services… At the elected time, it shows up again on at the top of the mailbox. In the browser versions of both Hotmail / and Exchange/Office365, it works as you’d expect – you Snooze an email and it is actually moved into the Scheduled email folder (and you’ll see when it is later due to reappear in Inbox if you look in there). Well, that’s how it works on some combinations. It’s a different concept to flags and reminders, rather if you select an email and say snooze until 10am tomorrow, it will literally disappear from your inbox and it would reappear at the top of the pile the following morning. One feature which appeared in different ways across multiple services and apps is the idea of Snoozing your email initially pioneered by Gmail, others followed suit. The Mail app is pretty good – it can connect to a variety of sources including Office 365, so while it might not be an ideal primary business email application, it can be a good way of connecting to multiple personal email services. Then there’s the Windows Mail app, which is linked to the Outlook mobile apps so much so, that you can launch the Mail app by pressing WindowsKey+R then entering outlookmail: to start it ( see more here). Microsoft’s current email clients are quite diverged: you can use the full-fat Outlook application to connect to your business email as well as your private Hotmail MSN Live / Gmail etc account. ![]() Home and work email services have been getting closer in form and function since. Web-based consumer services like Hotmail, Yahoo! and Gmail changed the expectations of many users. In the days when companies ran their own IT on-premises, there was Exchange, and the companion mail client Outlook arrived shortly after. One modern incarnation of the multiple-ways principle is electronic mail despite many attempts to replace email with other means of messaging, persistent chat etc, it’s still a huge deal (especially in business) and it’s still growing. The Best Laid Plans don’t always work, and sometimes politics and machination gets in the way. Internal competition was encouraged with the idea that if several teams built solutions for the same problem, it would spur them all on and the best would win out. Microsoft has always been good at having several ways of doing the same thing.
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