I’m trying to figure out how to open a URL like “https://outlook.office365.com/*” in the Outlook app, instead of in the browser. I’ve tried using OpeIn and Velja, but I haven’t had any luck. With Velja, it opens Outlook, but it doesn’t open the message that corresponds to the URL. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
That appears to be a link to a web page. Outlook is. it a web browser.
I was intrigued by this question, so I did a bit of research. Apparently, neither the Windows nor the Mac versions of Outlook can open a message directly if provided with a link from OWA (the web version of Outlook). (I’m somewhat sceptical about the unique links from OWA as well – they do change based on what thread is selected, but pasting them in a new browser does not open the same message, at least for me, so I’m not quite sure to what extent these links are actually unique.)
If you look at the command line switches that the Windows version of Outlook supports, there’s nothing to suggest it should be able to do this. If there were such a feature, I suppose it would also be implemented at the command-line level so that it can be automated/integrated into workflows. On the Windows side of things, it would probably all be supported by Power Automate (I guess).
Based on a scarce post here and there (sorry, I did not save all the links), there is a workaround for a single message (saving the link to the message in OWA to OneNote and then using the saved link in OneNote, which will open in desktop Outlook), but this does not look like a workflow that can be easily automated.
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Thanks so much for looking into my request. I guess I’ll just have to get used to opening links in the web version of Outlook.
To give you a bit more info, the link is generated by the Todoist plugin within the Outlook client.
So did I. But I quickly gave up when I discovered there are 8 current Outlook releases (as of July 2024) not counting the android and iOS versions. And an additional 6 older versions that are still being supported. 