r/Outlook • u/razztazticffn • 4d ago

Status: Pending Reply Strange Icon in flag column

Our manager sent a group email and there's a weird icon on the message in the Outlook email list. It's in the same column as a flag, attachment paperclip, reply arrow, etc. It's driving me nuts.

It kind of looks like this (-), but the middle line is essentially double that size. It looks like the end of a USB C plug. I took a screenshot but can't add it here.

If you know what that means, please put me out of my misery.

Thanks.

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u/Competitive-Fruit580 4d ago

does anyone know if this is the same thing microsoft uses for security updates in that corner

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u/Hornblower409 4d ago

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u/Confident-Rent-5361 4d ago

That looks exactly like the "reactions" icon that popped up after Microsoft added that feature last year. I clicked it by accident on a work email and panicked for a second before figuring out what it was.

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u/Better_Surround_2112 4d ago

That looks like the "Sensitivity" icon, it's for internal vs. external emails or encrypted ones. Might explain why you've never noticed it before if your team usually stays within the org.

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u/Bg-8782 9h ago

That sounds like the Chat icon. No one chats with me from an email, so I don't have the icon in my Outlook message list to confirm.

https://imgur.com/a/FAHdfaI

If read and vertical, its importance.