How often do you get copied on an email conversation that you do not care about? And then everyone keeps hitting “Reply All”, flooding your Inbox with unnecessary email. Outlook 2010 offers you a quick one-click solution. First, make sure that one of the emails in that conversation is selected in your Inbox. Then, on the Home tab, click the Ignore button. See the screenshots below. In the pop up window, click on the Ignore Conversation button. This moves current and future email messages from the selected conversation to the Deleted Items folder.
Outlook 2010′s Ignore button
Outlook 2010′s Ignore button, condensed view
If you want to stop ignoring a conversation, a message from that conversation must still be in the Deleted Items folder. Select the message by single-clicking on it, and then press the Ignore button. In the pop up window, click on Stop Ignoring Conversation. This conversation is moved back to your Inbox, and all future messages in the conversation will be delivered to the Inbox.
Let me offer a word of caution. If the subject line is too general, ignoring the conversation may catch more email than you want. For example, I ignored a conversation with the subject line “Outlook 2010″, and Outlook considers email messages from a year ago with the same subject line as part of the conversation. Therefore, it moved those year-old messages to the Deleted Items folder. The Ignore feature works best with more specific subject lines. Also, you should check the Deleted Items folder regularly to ensure this feature does not unintentionally move email messages.
thanks for article, excellent
Thanks for this post i’ve been trying to get to grips with outlook for my new job – useful feature.
I have to say this article needs to be bumped up in Google searches. I can’t tell you how aggravating this problem was for one user and for me not understanding why some emails would go straight into the Delete folder.
I’m going to try to link to this page in like the first… 10 Google search results with people tearing their hair out and resorting to rebuilding the entire mailbox to fix.
Hi Yuki,
Thank you for the compliment and for posting to our blog. Out of curiosity, what did you type in at Google? If I know your search term(s), then maybe I can add some tags on the post to make it appear higher in the results.
Thanks!
Ben
Thanks Yuki… I think it was your post on another site that lead me to this site which fixed my problem. I was searching for Outlook Hidden Rules because I believed that was the problem until I saw your post… THANKS YUKI, THANKS BEN
Thanks a lot Yuki and Ben.
Thank you for the article, I actually hit that button by mistake trying to hit send/all and an important message went away.. So I googled this “I clicked ignore on outlook how to bring the email back” .. Now I know thanks to your article…
Again Thank you !
Rafael Mas