You will be presented with the Custom Follow-Up Flag window, which should look something like this: You can also click on the “Custom…” entry, since it will bring up the same window.
Click on it, then on the “Add Reminder” button from the drop-down menu.
To the right you will see the “Tags” section, and the Follow-up button inside it is what interests us now (if you have an older version of Outlook, then the option will be present but in a different place – you will still be able to send red emails though). – additionally, my ribbon also contains an entry for one of our add-ins for Outlook named Auto Follow-Up). You will be presented with the Message ribbon in the upper part of the window, which contains the regular fields (clipboard, basic text properties etc. *Note that the steps one has to take in order to send a red email are provided below under the Outlook 2010 interface.*įirst, in the normal Outlook window, click on the “New Email” button (usually located in the top left corner of the screen). Here’s a step-by-step tutorial though, so you don’t have to search Outlook for the particular features this makes use of. Practically, if someone sends you an Outlook email and the message is flagged for follow-up (or any category for that matter) with a reminder date set in the past, you will receive and see the email colored in red. Receiving red emails is purely related to the way Outlook handles user-defined email properties. How can this be, since when you compose a new email you can’t set any text properties (like Bold, Italic, color and so on) for the subject line? This also applies for messages written in the “Plain text” format, so the red emails aren’t related to the content properties for sure. Well, its subject is colored red, the actual body of the message is formatted normally, exactly like how it was sent. If you use Microsoft Outlook to read your emails, every once in a while you may receive a red email message. *Since we received many emails from our users asking about incoming Outlook emails displayed in red, we decided to post this step-by-step tutorial for generating red emails.*
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