How can I generate a link to a specific email?

Anonymous
2024-02-05T02:36:04+00:00

How can I generate a hyperlink to a specific email?

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-06-20T08:31:00+00:00

    Thanks to @DerPritz on REDDIT, I found an answer/easy workaround!

    1. Outlook web email > Rightclick your email > Advanced Actions > Create Task
    2. A pane opens on the right. Rightclick the email icon link on your email > Open in To Do
    3. Another pane opens next to the previous one > Rightclick the Outlook icon Open link > Copy Link Address and paste it anywhere and that specifice email will open up!

    Now this will create a task in your Microsoft To Do everytime, but its fine for me because I dont use To Do.

    This option works perfectly fine. Thank you for sharing it.

    I find Outlook Web is a half baked version of Gmail in many ways (getting URL, embed emails in other tools...)
    They really need to bring the level up.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-04-08T22:47:28+00:00

    Thanks for the suggestion that might work for you, but:
    A) Step 9 . Right clicking the 'Open > " icon does not work for me in the ToDo app or the "Open in Outlook > " icon in the ToDo pane of the New Outlook app. I can only left click which opens the email in a new window with no way to get a URL

    B) That's a helluva lot of steps just to get a URL. It might have been good as an interim workaround but doesn't change the need for a more direct way to generate a permalink to an email.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-03-06T07:04:55+00:00

    This works when you open To Do list from outlook classic or from outlook on the web. Not from new outlook. In new outlook you can't copy the link. You can just open it. What a mess......

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-10-12T07:06:12+00:00

    No, that is it correct. Onenote method works also using the desktop outlook app. At list the new outlook that I use.

    Second method also works, but is a bit more complicated in my opinion.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-10-09T08:41:15+00:00

    After you have sent the email to onenote, go to onenote (to the exact location where the new note, which contains the email , has been created) and at the beggining of that note there is a table with information of the email (subject, sender etc. ). There is the option "link to outlook" (in the second line of the table.

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