Disable auto-delete of accepted meeting invites in the *new" Outlook?

Anonymous
2023-06-17T15:42:58+00:00

The existing Outlook app for Windows has a setting to prevent calendar invites from being automatically sent to Deleted Items* when you accept them. Is this setting available in New Outlook?

Microsoft just announced that starting in 2024, the new Outlook will be the "official" one. I'm really concerned that features like this may be ignored when trying to reach feature parity. So, Is there an official feature request page for this? They exist for other Microsoft products I use, but I didn't find one dedicated to the New Outlook.

Thanks for your help with these topics!

*Deleted Items is the wrong choice even if I wanted this! Archive would be the smarter location for a modern email didn't. (But the best thing would be too simply not do actions the user didn't request!) Thanks again.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-06-18T23:07:07+00:00

    who has a File menu?

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-07-15T17:05:36+00:00

    The fact that it's been a year and still no solution to a feature that was d*mb to add in the first place... Says a lot.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-07-16T09:14:58+00:00

    This is the second big problem I'm facing with outlook when handling events. I'm responding to an event, not deleting an E-Mail. Often, the event is just a part of the mail, while other, important information is placed within the mail. The fact that the mail closes and is moved to the deleted items, when accepting an event is confusing at best, but I'd argue it's just plain wrong, as it is neither an action implied by the button, nor intended by me anyway.

    The thinking process here is probably the same as with the deletion of declined events.

    It is absolutely possible to streamline such actions without making your application an unintuitive mess. Maybe, just maybe, use a dropdown menu, where you can select "accept & delete mail" or "decline and delete" as options beyond the standard accept and decline. Give us an option to use whichever option we prefer. But don't do some implicit magic that may or may not be clear to the user. Which is probably only found out, when googling for the problem, just to find that there's no solution to it and a lot of people have the same problem ...

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-07-18T13:44:10+00:00

    Dear Microsoft,

    Are we going to further address this, as organizations are now being hustled over to the new PWA app now, and it's been ages of not addressing this issue. I call it an issue because making me go and hunt every single invite down in my Deleted folder to recover it back to the inbox manually is NOT a feature. Can we please get some movement here, considering we haven't even mentioned the fact that shared mailboxes don't work yet either.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-07-18T14:00:05+00:00

    Honestly it getting to the point I think someone in upper management at Microsoft needs to be given a wake up call to get them to start caring about the people who use their product. Lets hope some enterprising developers comes up with programs that puts Microsoft out of business and maintains a culture that cares about its customers instead of the abusive one towards its customers that Microsoft has.

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