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This is the forum where you can give us feedback about the new experiences in Outlook.com.
Please vote on ideas you like. If you have a new idea that hasn’t been submitted by anyone else, submit it. If you have many ideas, submit them separately. This will help us decide what to build next.
We’ll reply to top issues, and will consider other suggestions as well. Thanks for trying the beta!
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Infinite scroll makes it impossible to get to old emails
Previous iterations of outlook.com have used pagination or viewport scrolling to allow me to accurately jump to any point in the middle of my inbox. The new layout, however, uses infinite scrolling, meaning that if I want to view a message more than a few days old, I have to scroll to the bottom, wait for a few messages to load, scroll to the bottom, wait for more messages to load, ad infinitum.
In fact, I can't any way in the new inbox of jumping to a historical email. If I can remember that I received an email at the…
3,645 votesThank you for your feedback.
We are investigating different ways to make accessing older emails easier for our users. We will report back when we have an update to this. Thank you for your patience!
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When scrolling through mail it is auto jumping back to top of the page
When scrolling down through emails it keeps randomly returning to the top of the list. When scrolling through older emails and having to wait for them to load into the list it is frustrating to have to go back down and wait each time for them to load.
800 votesWe’ve identified one of the issues with Firefox which will be fixed when Firefox updates to version 57.
One of our users has also posted a solution for Firefox that seems to work that you can try in the interim:
1) Type “about:config” in the address bar.
2) Click the “I accept the risk” button.
3) Type “accessibility.blockautorefresh” in the search box (though, you might not have to do this – for me it is the third item from the very top in config).
4) Double-click on the first item that appears to modify the value to “true”.
5) Restart Firefox.We are also working on improving reliability and performance while scrolling that will help alleviate this issue on other browsers like Chrome, Edge, and IE. Those changes should be available soon and we will update this thread once those have been released.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
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Blocking selected senders
Without opening any questionable messages, the "Block" feature previously available in the "Junk email" folder was good in that it displayed the email address ID for the selected message(s) before giving the option to confirm the "Block" request. This helpful option does no appear to be available any longer.
53 votesWe are working on adding the confirmation dialog that will list the full set of email addresses in full when multiple senders are selected to be blocked.
Thanks for your patience and the feedback!
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Delete malfunction / cant delete
Cannot delete emails. Delete button does not function
24 votesFirst off thank you for reporting this issue. We are actively investigating it right now.
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Set email reminders on events
Please restore email reminder functionality to calendar! I rely on this to keep track of my schedule and I'm now using Google calendar because I can't get this Outlook.com beta to send me email reminders.
198 votesWe’re working on bringing email reminders to the beta experience. Thanks for the feedback!
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delay sending email or undo send
Hi,
I'm surprise that this feature is not yet in Outlook. I would like the possibility to delay sending email to a specific time.
Thank you
432 votesThis is coming soon.
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Today list on calendar month view missing
Love the email section
When using the beta calenadar, I no longer have today's calendar items on the right hand side on the month view.
I prefer month view and to see today's list.
100 votesWe’re working on bringing the agenda list in month view to the beta experience. Thanks for the feedback!
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Expand Calendar Color Choices
The selection of colors for calendars is very limited, and the 9 choices given have several that look very similar. I would love more choices, or at least choices that are more distinct from each other.
103 votesThank you for your feedback on the beta! We’re working on expanding the number of calendar color choices.
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Safe Senders not permitting Domain addition.
Junk Email - Safe Senders: cannot add domain as stated in the info; only full email addresses work.
7 votesThank you for reporting this. We have identified the issue and are deploying a fix. We will respond back here once this is complete.
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Calendar: Option to turn events from email off not working
When I disable the checkbox next to "Automatically add events to my calendar from email" and click on "Save" afterwards, Outlook only retains the change for the current session (tried with Firefox and Chrome). As soon as I log off and log in to Outlook again, the option is enabled again, meaning lots of unwanted entries are being listed in my calendar. (Also I have no option to go back to pre-beta as it seems.)
It would be great if this change could be retained even after logging off. Many thanks!9 votesThank you for your feedback! We are currently looking into this issue and will reply back once we have an update.
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Block Sender Email Address Confirmation
when you click on block to block a sender, display the email address it's blocking and a yes/no option to confirm. this is on the existing
257 votesWe are working on adding the confirmation dialog that will list the full set of email addresses in full when multiple senders are selected to be blocked.
Thanks for your patience and the feedback!
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unable to disable anything
As a solution to some of your user's problems, you advise us to click on the gear on the upper right in order to load the setting pane. Then we can disable various functions. I'm unable to disable anything because the right side of the setting pane (where you can click to disable something) isn't visible-it's under-what do you call those things?-what you use to scroll up or down with. The right side of the setting pane used to be visible, but hasn't been for a while now.
7 votesFirst off, Sorry about this bug! It appears that with some resolutions things are slightly off the screen and the scroll Bars are showing. We are working on a fix and will hopefully get it fully deployed shortly!
thanks for reporting
David Los
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Searching is very difficult in mail software. It should search a persons mail/ subject/contents in all mails including archive
Searching is very difficult in mail software. It should search a persons mail/ subject/contents in the body of the mails. The search should include inbox as well as including archive mails.
170 votesThank you for your feedback. We are working on the Advanced Search feature which will bring the ability to search in any folder, search by subject, and etc. next month. We appreciate your patience and will let you know as soon as the feature is available.
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Can't locate 'calendar publishing' option
I cannot located the 'calendar publishing' option to obtain the URL to share ICAL file
21 votesWe’re working on bringing calendar publishing to the new Outlook on the web. Thanks for the feedback!
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If you add #unread filter, the unread email always stays unread even after you read/clicked it.
If you add #unread filter, the unread email always stays unread even after you read/clicked it.
72 votesThank you for your feedback! Opinion on this behavior in the unread filter is mixed, so we’ll be adding a setting where you can choose to automatically mark emails as read in this filter when reading normally.
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Save preffered sort order for contacts:
Everytime I return to contacts, I have to change the filter to my preference.
OneDrive has a feature that allows you to save your preferred sort order.
That would be a great consistent use of the feature in outlook throughout.10 votes -
Please add search folders
I use massively search folders on Outlook client, I would like retrieve them on the web client.
30 votesI want to thanks everyone for providing feedback so that we can make Outlook.com better.
The folder scopes that are available is limited today but you can still access them via the “All folders” button on the right side of the search box. You can also select a folder in the left pane first before you search. That will scope the search to just that folder.
We are working to improve the Advanced Search function which will allow you to scope your search to any folders. We will let you know when the feature is available.
Thanks!
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