Stop receiving email notifications of people responses for some events

Anonymous
2024-02-28T23:56:41+00:00

Hi,

In my organisation, we use the outlook calendar to organise meetings, etc. It is very useful to receive notifications via email when people respond.

However, I use the same tool to create seminars with many invitees, so it becomes very annoying to receive hundreds of mails and notifications for them. Is there a way to prevent outlook to send me emails for some of the events?

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-04-07T17:46:14+00:00

    You can't turn off the responses, or you will be unable to track responses.

    If you read through the entire thread, you will find some interesting responses and experiences.

    jspears0501 had replied to my question on how to stop receiving email notifications of people responses, quoted here below:

    I had the same experience and it was a nightmare. I found this option to work for me.

    Go to File – Options – Mail – Tracking and select “Update Tracking information, and then delete responses that don’t contain a comment.”

    This will stop you receiving all calendar responses via email but will still track the responses. This way you are not flooded with accepted or rejected invitation responses, and you are still able to see who has responded and their response.

    I did this, but it is not working properly, though it's the most promising I've seen so far.

    Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't but haven't quite figured out why yet.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-08-26T21:22:05+00:00

    I would love to know this as well but cant find out how.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-06-26T10:51:59+00:00

    Hi Ibhadighi

    So glad I found this thread. You have saved our shared mailbox being flooded with accept/decline request.

    Many Thanks

    Juggy

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-12-23T18:25:29+00:00

    What if I have unchecked it but I'm still getting responses? This is a recent issue with a global email list at our organization and I am now getting 14k replies - accept, decline, out of office bounce backs. I've made rules so that these all go to my trash, but I would actually like to receive declinations from my team when I invite them to 1:1/smaller meetings. This is kind of a nightmare.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-10-17T21:29:50+00:00

    If I'm in the third option, does changing the "Response Options" send another meeting update to all invites?

    Thanks,

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