Icons used in the Inbox and in Message Headers

New Message, Conflict, Document, Read Message, Draft, Postmaster Notification, Replied to, Forwarded, Remote Mail, Delivery Confirmation, Read Receipt, Not Delivered, Not Read Out of Office, Recall, Recall Failed, Information, Encrypted, Signed, Secure Read Receipt, Encrypted and Replied to, Signed and Replied to, Encrypted and Forwarded, Signed and Forwarded, Encrypted and Read, Signed and Read

The following are icons you may see in your Inbox, Sent folder, or in the message header.

Icons		Description
Older	New	Description
		Unread Message (Text in Message list should be bold.)
		Opened (read) Message (Text in message list is no longer bold.)
		Replied to message (May include icons for signed and encrypted icons)
		Forwarded message (may include signed and encrypted icons)
		High Importance Message (may be combined with the attachment icon or have an exclamation mark in the importance column )
		Low Importance Message (may be combined with the attachment icon or have the down arrow in the importance column )
		Has Attachment (may be combined with an importance icon or have a paperclip in the attachment column)
This message was replied to, has an attachment and is marked High Importance. (Outlook 2003)
		Draft or Resend message icon.
		Post (IPM.Post) form
		Meeting Request
		Accepted Meeting
		Declined Meeting request
		Cancelled Meeting Request
		Tentative Acceptance (or Propose New Time in OL2003)
		Task Request
		Accepted Task
		Declined Task

		Signed and Encrypted (The signed and/or or encrypted icons may be on envelopes as shown below.)
		Signed
		Signed, but there is a problem with certificate
		Encrypted. Uses a lock () icon.
		Secure Read Receipt
		Delivery error: Undeliverable.
		Delivery confirmation: Delivered.
		Read Receipt: Item marked as read.
		Read Receipt: deleted when marked unread.
		Recall Attempted
		Recall Failed.
		Out of Office. When a person has their Exchange account configured to send Out of office messages, you'll
		Message Tracking. Seen on items in Sent folder when tracking or voting is requested after first response is received and processed. Contains read/delivery receipt information or vote results.
		Conflict. Occurs when syncing Outlook items with a PDA or when using cached mode with Exchange. Look in the Sync Issues folder.

When you download headers only (usually IMAP and Exchange offline mode), you'll see the following icons in your Inbox, indicating the status of the message:

Only the message header was downloaded:

(Outlook 2002 and older)

(Outlook 2003)

When the icon has a small blue down arrow arrow () The message is marked for download.

In Outlook 2003's preview pane or in an opened message you may see either little messenger icons (pre-SP2) or balls. These indicate if the sender is online with Windows Messenger or MSN Messenger. (This a a sample of the icons you'll see - there are more icons than just these three.)

	Online
	Not on your messenger contact list
	Away
	Offline

Icons

Description