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Save an email from Outlook to SharePoint
- You can simply drag and drop an email to a SharePoint location in your Outlook Navigation pane.
- Select a single email, or multiple emails you can use the ‘Copy to SharePoint’ or ‘Move to SharePoint’ buttons in the Outlook home ribbon.
To save an incoming email message to SharePoint, Teams, or OneDrive: Drag-and-drop the message to any SharePoint, Teams, or OneDrive location in the All Locations view. Use the Save Message button from the harmon.ie ribbon button. Right-click the message and select Save Message.
Do you need metadata to upload emails to SharePoint?
So, one need to manually feed additional metadata information to describe it in the SharePoint columns to give a meaning to the uploaded email MSG file. Not only, it is time consuming and laborious to save, upload the email file and enter metadata to describe it, one has to repeat the same step for each email.
How to copy and paste emails from Outlook to SharePoint?
Drag and drop the emails from Outlook directly to the Explorer window. I had to do this too a little ago. I ended up saving the mails locally (as *.msg) and then I Copy&Pasted them to the doclib using the explorer view. Far away from a smooth solution and not recommended for large numbers of mails, but maybe it works for you too.
Because of this, user adoption of SharePoint could suffer in the organization. For instance, emails can be saved as Outlook Message Format (.MSG extension) from Outlook > File > Save As, and then can be uploaded directly through the native SharePoint UI.
Uploading emails as MSG files to SharePoint For instance, emails can be saved as Outlook Message Format (.MSG extension) from Outlook > File > Save As, and then can be uploaded directly through the native SharePoint UI.