

However, “Send Later” is first available to Office Insider Fast users today on version 15.36 (170606) but won’t reach all Office 365 subscribers until July. And the improved account setup experience is available to all Outlook Mac users on version 15.34 (170515). The Request a Delivery and Read receipts, email templates, and creating calendar events and tasks from emails additions are available today to all Office 365 subscribers on version 15.35 (170610), says Microsoft. The company says it prioritized which items to launch first based on user feedback, and these additions represent four of the most requested features. Setting up new accounts is also now easier, as you no longer need to know what type of account you have (like Office 365, Exchange, IMAP or POP), and if you’ve signed into other Office apps before using Outlook, the software will just prompt you to add that existing account.

The same drag-and-drop will also work to turn emails into tasks, if you prefer. This will turn the email subject into calendar subject, while the body of the email is filled into the event’s Notes field. The updated software will support email templates, too, as well as the ability to turn your emails into calendar events, just by dragging and dropping the email onto the calendar itself. Select the action: defer delivery by a number of minutes. Click Next again and then Yes to accept the warning about the rule being applied to every message you send. That means the feature won’t go so far as to replace the more advanced email tracking solutions on the market, which tend to use sneakier tactics like tracking pixels in order to determine when messages are opened. Outlook 2010 / 2013 / 2016 / 2019 / Office 365 File-> Manage Rules & Alerts Click on: New Rule Select: Apply rule on messages I send Click Next.

Microsoft notes, though, that email recipients can choose to decline to send read receipts. Also new to Outlook 2016 for Mac is support for delivery and read (opened) receipts when sending messages.
