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The flag/message is totally ignored.īut linking the Gmail account into Outlook Windows/Mac will make the reminder available. However, if you link your email account to Outlook for Windows or Mac, the reminder will be available as shown above. If you get the same message in ’s web interface, the sent flag/reminder is ignored entirely.

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Outlook appsĪn incoming message with a reminder is ignored by the Outlook apps for Android and iOS.

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Outlook for Mac doesn’t support text in a reminder but the alert date/time is active. The reminder is activated automatically (no hiding or blocking as in Outlook for Windows). The same incoming email with reminder works quite differently in Outlook for Mac. You can change the reminder text and date, just like any other reminder. You can go to Follow Up | Add Reminder to see the reminder. It’s not very obvious, but if you click on the status line there’s an option ‘Unblock flag text’.Ĭhoose ‘Unblock flag text’ and the Flag/Reminder will be added to Outlook. The recipient has to unhide/unblock the reminder to make it active.Ī note like this appears in the status line of the open message. If the recipient uses Outlook for Windows then the reminder appears in the incoming email – but it’s hidden and inactive. We did some tests on various Outlook incarnations plus Gmail to see what appears in the Inbox for a message with reminder. ‘ Might‘ – what happens to the recipient’s reminder depends on what email program they use.Įven Microsoft’s own email programs and services are not consistent in how they treat this Microsoft feature.įor other email programs or mail hosts it’s a ‘Your mileage may vary’ situation. It depends on what email program they use to read the message and if they choose to activate the reminder. The reminder included with the email might popup to the recipient. Theres a good reason for this as the suite has been around for many years as part of Microsoft Office. Outlook is designed to support only a sub-set of HTML 4, so some HTML tags are. What happens at the receivers end, when they get an email with a reminder included? Outlook is Microsofts premium email client and is regarded as one of the best in the business. Designing HTML emails for outlook it is definitely not a best practice. Once you’ve made a reminder, you can see that a ‘Flag for Recipients’ is set from the status bar above the edited message. You can’t set a reminder for another time zone, unless you do the conversion yourself. That makes things difficult if you’re emailing people in other time zones. Note: the date/time of the reminder is in your current time zone only.

Just like the ‘Flag for Me’, the Flag To text works best if it’s specific rather than one of Microsoft’s bland defaults. To send a reminder with your email, go to the same Home | Tags | Follow Up | Add Reminder and look at the bottom ‘Flag for Recipients’ section. Then click the ‘Add Reminder’ option which opens the Custom dialog. Modern Outlook has spilt reminders between the sender (aka ‘Me’) and reminders for the recipient.įrom an open email message go to Home | Tags | Follow Up Because of those troubles, some ‘old hands’ with Outlook are still wary of email reminders. Here’s a personal reminder that you do not want the email receiver to see.Įmbarrassments like that did happen. Setting reminders for outgoing emails was a problem in early versions of Outlook because the reminder was always sent with the message, which wasn’t always a good idea. Finally, we’ll explain how the reminder is included in your email. We’ll look at how that reminder will appear to the recipient, if at all.

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In this article, we’ll show how to send a reminder with your email. Ideally, this means the recipient will get a ‘pop-up’ reminder to do whatever you’re talking about in the email itself. $outfileNameExtension = $files.Outlook for Windows (not Mac) can send an automatic reminder with an email. # Iterate over all files and only add the ones that have an. It has been automatically generated by a script.' $mail.body = 'This is the body of the email. $mail.subject = 'This is the subject of the mail'

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Write-Host ' : Full path for the folder which contains the files' Of course, you are free to remove this extension filtering for your own purposes.Īlso, note that Outlook must have a configured email account for the sending process to succeed. html) and that exist in a specific folder (passed as parameter to the PowerShell script).

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The script below is the result of a collection of snippets and bits of code I found in various places around the Internet that allowed me to solve this problem.įor this example, I only want to send the files which have a specific extension (. I decided to use a Windows Scheduled Task, that would wake up at that time and invoke a PowerShell script. A few days ago, I had to find a way to automatically send an email with attachments, at a predetermined time, using Outlook and PowerShell.

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