Setting email importance and sensitivity

Setting email importance

To indicate whether an email is urgent or not, you can set its importance

Click Mail in the navigation bar at the top right of the screen

Select mail

Click the three dots at the top of the email and select Set importance

select set importance

Select either High, Normal or Low and the recipient will be notified of the email’s importance

high importance icon

low importance icon

If you select High, the email will contain a red exclamation mark, if you select Normal, the recipient will not be notified and if you select Low, the email will contain a blue downwards arrow

Setting email sensitivity

So that the recipient knows if your email is confidential, personal or private, you can set the sensitivity of the email you are sending

Click the three dots at the top of the email and select Show message options

Select either Normal, Personal, Private or Confidential and the recipient will be notified of the email’s sensitivity

select show message options
select sensitivity type

 

notification of sensitivity

For example, if you select confidential the email in the recipient’s mailbox will say “This message has been marked as Confidential” at the top of the message

Click ok at the bottom of the window

Updated on 10/04/2019

Related Articles

back to top