OWA (Outlook Web App): Basic use of e-mail

• You can change OWA’s settings as follows:
• Open the gear menu > View all Outlook settings.

• A window opens in which settings are divided into three columns. Choose from the left (1) if you wish to change OWA’s general settings or just the properties of a specific section. You can specify your choice in the middle column (2) and change the settings in column (3).

• Log into the service at https://www.helsinki.fi/office365.

• In the picture, OWA has been opened in the e-mail view.
• E-mail folders are shown in the left-hand column (1).
• The middle column (2) shows an open Inbox folder.
• The first message in the Inbox folder is shown open in the right-hand column (3).
• The upper left-hand corner (4) contains a nine-dot menu for moving between OWA’s different applications.
• You can change OWA’s settings by clicking the gear icon (5). For example, you can change OWA’s language or create a signature for e-mail messages.
• Click the question mark (6) to open OWA’s own search.

• Click the nine-dot menu.
• Click the application you wish to open.

• Type a new message by clicking the New  link in the upper left-hand corner.

• Enter the recipient’s name in the To field (1).
• Enter the recipients of the copy in the field (2).
• Enter the subject of the message in the field (3).
• Type the message in the field (4).
• There is a Send button in the upper and lower edge of the window (5) and a button for adding attachments Attach.
  
  

• You can sort messages according to date, sender or other properties in the Filter menu.
• Click the Filter menu to open it.
• Open Sort by.
• Select the sorting criterion.

OWA normally shows received messages in chronological order. Messages related to the same subject may be located far away from each other so it may be difficult to get an overview. By introducing the conversation view as the way in which messages are shown, messages related to the same subject are grouped into a single whole and only the first message in the chain is shown in the message list. You can change the view as follows:

• Open the gear menu > View all Outlook settings.

• Select Show as > Conversations.

You can categorise messages as follows:

• Open the menu by right-clicking the subject field of the message.
• Click Categorize and select a suitable message category from the list that opens.

•    In Manage categories... , you can add your own new categories.
•    The categorisation shows in the form of colour codes. You can place the same message in several categories.

You can search old messages with the help of keywords as follows:

• Enter the search term in the Search field.
• Press ENTER.

• Close the search by clicking the arrow in the search field.

• You can limit the search by clicking the arrow in the search field.

You can add new folders as follows:

• Right-click a folder in the folder list in the left-hand edge.
• Click Create new folder.

• Give a name to the new folder and press ENTER.

• You can move messages from one folder to another by dragging them with the mouse.
• You can copy a message to another folder by keeping the Ctrl key pressed while dragging the message.

You can set the Outlook web app application to automatically perform different types of actions on messages that fulfill specific conditions. For example, you can direct messages received from a specific sender to a separate folder or messages containing specific passwords to a folder of their own. Messages are always processed using rules. You can create new rules yourself. The easiest way to create rules is to use a message as a model.

If you create rules for spam, please remember to periodically check your spam folder. Rules are not infallible, and sometimes even relevant mail may end up in the wrong folder.

However, it is better to process spam by following these instructions >>

The rules are created as follows:

• Right-click the message for which you wish to create a rule.
• Click Advance actions > Create rule.

• By default, the rule will move the message to another folder (1). Select the folder from the drop-down menu (2) and click OK (4). From More Options (3), you can create more specific rules.

• The More Options menu allows you to very accurately adjust what will be done with a specific message.

You can change the rule later as follows:

• Open a drop-down menu by clicking the gear icon in the upper right-hand corner.

• Select Email > Rules > Rules.

OWA uses an audio and visual notification to signal the arrival of messages. If you feel this interferes with you work, you can change the default values as follows:

• Open the gear icon > Mail.

• Open General > Notifications > Notifications

The messages you have deleted are first moved to the Deleted items folder. After some time, the messages are moved from the Deleted Items folder to the hidden Deleted folder from where you can recover messages. Read more about the deletion process.

NOTE: Mail administration does not recover messages to the user’s mailbox apart from special cases. The user can recover messages or other deleted items within 30 days from the deletion of the item, after which the mailbox items can no longer be recovered. No backup copies on tape are taken from e-mail messages in the Office 365 e-mail system but we use database distribution based on current recommendations.

You can also recover messages that are no longer in the Deleted Items folder:

• Click the Deleted Items text (1).
• Messages open in a reading window.
• Right-click the message you wish to recover (2).
• Open the Move submenu.
• Select the folder to which you wish to move the message.
  
  

See separate instructions >> for reporting spam.

You can give other users permissions to your e-mail folders as follows:

• Right-click the folder the permissions of which you wish to edit.
• Select Permissions .

• Click + (1).
• Start typing the first letters of the name in the field (2)
• Select person (3).

• Click Add.

• Check that the person you added is selected as active (1).
• Select a suitable permission level from the Permission level menu. The default is None .lt level is None.

NOTE! Assign reading rights for the main level folder by repeating the previous phases.

• Click here for separate instructions on how to use a shared mailbox.