There’s no officially supported way to create a URL to an Outlook email. But there is a way to do it, and it’s handy. Since this is not officially supported it’ll likely break at some point. I’ve been wanting a way to do this because it’s often handy, in a project plan, to be able to reference particular emails without having to screenshot them, export them, etc. The steps are simple fairly simple.
The TL;DR Version
- Log into Outlook on the web.
- Select the email to which you want to link.
- In the preview pane, choose More Actions > View > Open in new window
- The message will now be in a pop-up window. Choose More Actions > View > Show in immersive reader
- Copy the URL of the message.
- Paste the URL into the address field of a new tab in your web browser.
- Hack the end of the URL to remove &view=immersive
- Reload the URL, to make sure it works.
- Copy the URL and use it wherever you need to!
The Fancy Version with Lots of Screenshots
[I’ll get to this later.]
Notes
It stands to reason that you could choose to enter the immersive reader without opening the message in its own window first, saving a few steps. It won’t work, though. The URL is visible in that view, but it lacks the &view=immersive query parameter at the end. Thus, there’s no way to convert it to a regular (non-immersive) view of the message.