Turn off useless feature

Question

How do I permanently disable the "send this email when the recipient returns" When trying to send an email to someone out of office? Its just another useless time wasting feature among a host of time wasting features from the mental giants at Microsoft.

Answer 1

It doesn't help at all it hinders efficiency. I would get better results submitting feed back to a brick wall then submitting feed back to Microsoft. They have a proven track record of not caring one whit about their customers or our needs. Benefits of being a monopoly.

Answer 2

Dear Scott Schulte

Thanks for choosing Microsoft Community.

We do understand your concern about this feature that how it helps you to improve your efficiency in such daily busy work schedule but as it is related with new outlook for windows product design, so it is suggested to submit your valuable feedback directly to Microsoft product development team by either go to Help from your dedicated App > submit Feedback or by posting on Ideas · Community (microsoft.com) . This is require because as we are from community team, we can only assist you to troubleshoot the query/share work around (if we have for any by design query) and providing you required information for feature’s availability status.

This community team and Microsoft product development team are separate. So for feature’s suggestion or by design query, user need to submit feedback from their side to Microsoft product team. Once user send feedback via above mentioned way, it’s sent to Microsoft directly and it's routed to the relevant product teams who can review it.

To check more details about how to submit feedback, kindly refer this article Learn about how to provide feedback to Microsoft - Microsoft 365 admin | Microsoft Learn.

Thanks for your precious time. Have a nice day,

Sincerely

Katherine