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Keep your Outlook meeting requests in your Inbox

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By default, Outlook deletes meeting request mails once you've accepted or declined the invite. This is designed to help you reduce clutter in your Inbox, and you can recover them individually if you like from your Deleted Items folder (as long as it hasn't been emptied).

If you prefer to hang on to these invite messages by default - say, to maintain a more complete e-mail history with your correspondents - you can toggle this option off.

In Outlook 2010, this is found under the File tab. Click Options, then Mail, and scroll down to the Send messages section. Now uncheck the box next to Delete meeting requests and notifications from Inbox after responding:

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In Outlook 2007, you'll find the similar option Delete meeting request from Inbox when responding under Tools, Options, Preferences, E-mail Options, Advanced E-mail Options.

Suzanne

Comments

  • Anonymous
    November 03, 2010
    Thanks for the info. Appreciate the effort.

  • Anonymous
    June 22, 2011
    This should have been disabled by default!

  • Anonymous
    March 18, 2012
    I think this option is also the reason why people loose meetings from their calendar.  If you delete the appointment item from the inbox that "DELETES THE APPOINTMENT FROM THE CALENDAR"  well at least in my experience of using the software.

  • Anonymous
    March 18, 2012
    That is the most stupid place to put this option

  • Anonymous
    May 25, 2012
    Thank you.  It is so so helpful to see when the invites appeared in my inbox.

  • Anonymous
    October 27, 2012
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  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2012
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  • Anonymous
    February 13, 2013
    exact solution for the problem i was trying to fix!!!

  • Anonymous
    March 22, 2013
    This is so dumb to place this setting in "send message' tab- common' Microsoft people! Thanks so much for pointing this out..

  • Anonymous
    April 02, 2013
    I see no similar option in Outlook for Mac. I miss Entourage and Office 2008 more and more every day.  

  • Anonymous
    April 04, 2013
    Please tell the person at Microsoft who had this moved to put it back in an easy location. This is really dumb and so is the worthless Office 2010 Help can't even find it.

  • Anonymous
    May 07, 2013
    Is there not an option in Outlook for MAC?

  • Anonymous
    May 22, 2013
    I always struggle to find this - I've had to have my work PC rebuilt a number of times, and always end up frustrated that my invites completely disappear when I've responded to them.  I search and search, try the help (which doesn't find any hits), and then end up googling for a solution. Suzanne - appreciate the time and effort you've gone to to post this :-)  Many thanks

  • Anonymous
    June 10, 2013
    very helpful. Saves a lot of my time now. dont have to go looking at past Calendars.

  • Anonymous
    August 09, 2013
    I knew it was there (our IT lady didn't!) but couldn't locate it!  Thanks, very clear instructions.  Feel so much safer keeping them in inbox - clutter or no clutter!

  • Anonymous
    November 27, 2013
    I agree with the posters above - why on earth did MS choose to hide this settings in the "Send Messages" area. This setting has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with send messages. Interesting that when you type "delete meeting requests" into Outlook help you get zero results about this setting. Yet another MS fail...