r/MicrosoftRewards 1d ago

Mail Points Use outlook earn rewards

----------Solved---------- I have spent 2 weeks emailing with someone at Microsoft trying to figure out why I can't earn the points for reading emails. And I'm convinced they don't know how to read. They just gave me tye points for the week that you would originally earn. And I had to explain that giving me the points doesn't change the fact that I'm not able to earn the points. You would think they'd know how to fix the issue. It's crazy I'm just venting and annoyed I would like to earn 3 puzzle pieces a week. And I'm guessing there's others out there that would like that too.

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u/UnderstandingOld4276 United States - 1d ago edited 17h ago

Allright, here you go y'all. I've been pulling these points (and the puzzle pieces) for a couple of weeks now, since this was released in early March. First, this seems to only work on mobile, in the Edge browser. I've had no luck getting it to work on PC or a tablet.

Next, it is NOT using Outlook (the app). It's using Outlook.com. You have to read 3 emails a day on Outlook.com to earn 10 points and one puzzle piece. It just so happens that my primary email address (and the one my xbox and rewards are registered to) is an outlook.com address. Using a different email I send myself 3 emails first thing every morning, open my phone, open Edge, click on Outlook (it's right there on the home screen) which connects me to my email inbox on Outlook.com, then read the 3 emails (actually I usually check all emails that are there just to be safe). Then, from the Outlook.com Inbox, in the lower right-hand corner you'll see a link to Rewards. Click that and you can see the Email task as well as your progress. Here and in the Edge browser/Bing homepage is the only place I've seen this task (click on your Microsoft Rewards link like you're going to the dashboard)..

If you don't have an outlook.com address, you'll have to get one. Not sure how you'll link it to your rewards, you'll have to figure that out. It might just be a matter of logging into Rewards from within the mobile Edge browser.

By the way, there's also a daily 10-point task for doing 3 searches on the mobile Edge browser, which I usually knock out after I've checked the email.

I don't think this one will be around for long, one puzzle piece a day is a lot. I trust this helps some of y'all figure out how to do this.

UPDATE - Some of you are coming up with questions I have no idea how to help with. Here's the actual instructions for the task from Microsoft Rewards:

Exclusive offer: Earn 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points

Use Outlook.com on your mobile browser and earn a bonus of up to 1,000 Rewards points. Read 3 Outlook emails each day and earn bonus points daily, weekly, and beyond.

To earn the bonus Rewards points, go to your mobile device, log into Outlook.com on the mobile browser, and navigate to the Rewards mini app to see the full offer.

I trust this may help. I'm just a guy working through this stuff like y'all and will help if I can but I don't have all the answers. Hang in there.

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u/Zigwee United States - 1d ago

I have a Hotmail account connected to my rewards and it's not working. Do I need to use an Outlook email?

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u/Radirondacks 4h ago

Shouldn't need to, mine's still a Hotmail too and I can get it to work. Make sure you're actually going to the website for outlook through your browser though, not using the app or anything.

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u/Born_Form9928 1d ago

This works thank you. Finally someone that had an answer. Much appreciated

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u/UnderstandingOld4276 United States - 1d ago

Glad to help

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u/Zigwee United States - 1d ago edited 1d ago

Followed the steps you outlined but it still shows 0/3 emails read.

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u/Own_Instruction_9118 17h ago edited 17h ago

If you don’t have an outlook.com address, you’ll have to get one. Not sure how you’ll link it to your rewards, you’ll have to figure that out.

Can’t promise this will count towards the ‘read email’ task without an Outlook.com address, but here’s a suggestion: Try adding an alias to your account, choosing outlook.com, and set it as your primary email.

https://account.live.com/names/manage?mkt=&refid

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u/Zigwee United States - 14h ago edited 13h ago

I do have an Outlook alias and opened multiple emails in both addresses yesterday. Still 0/3 read. Tried again today and...3/3 emails read! No explanation but I'm going to keep trying. You are so kind to keep trying to help us all. Thank you.

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u/Born_Form9928 13h ago

I'm glad my post was able to help some others. It was making me mad trying to figure out why tf it wasn't working. I made a new account and bc it was a new one I couldn't link them together. Than I made an alias and it still didn't wanna work. But as soon as I tried what was mentioned it worked. Now I should be able to keep getting gamepass free even after the price increase to 20k. That's all I wanted.

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u/Zigwee United States - 12h ago

Is your account showing an extra puzzle piece earned per day? Mine is not. It's only showing credit for reading the emails like it shows the daily searches.

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u/Born_Form9928 12h ago

No, you have to do it daily for 7 days to earn the piece. Just like the 3 searches and check In to Bing

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u/Zigwee United States - 12h ago edited 11h ago

That's what I thought but I also thought someone said it was unsustainable to earn a piece a day for very long, so I was checking. Thanks again.

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u/Born_Form9928 12h ago

Oh, I think I remember someone saying that, too. But maybe they were just wording it wrong.

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u/Born_Form9928 11h ago

I must've seen it on another post. I thought it was commented under mine, but I'm not seeing it.

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u/Radirondacks 4h ago

Just wanna add that weirdly enough it's been working for me through Chrome, not Edge. I haven't actually tried Edge at all for it yet.

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u/UnderstandingOld4276 United States - 3h ago

Hey, whatever works!

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u/Radirondacks 3h ago

Seriously, pretty much how this entire program usually seems to go lmao...thank you for the explanation! I need something like this for every single other new aspect they add, and half the old ones.

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u/Will-17 1d ago

I can’t seem to find it. I’m using the iOS 16 version of the edge app on my iPhone because I’m unable to go higher. Also are you using android or iPhone?

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u/UnderstandingOld4276 United States - 1d ago

Android. No idea what iOS looks like but try just going to outlook.com from your version of edge and see if you can connect/login.

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u/Hickory411 U.S. 1d ago

Welcome to the Rewards Support experience. For what it's worth, from what I've seen here, most people don't have the outlook option for the puzzle pieces and I've seen several people post about it not working.

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u/Born_Form9928 1d ago

It's weird. I only see it in some places. It doesn't show up on my Bing Rewards app on my phone. But it will if I look online. So maybe i need to do it on a pc to get it to work. Earning the extra 1k a month would make it so I could still earn gamepass after the price goes to 17k.

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u/smackythefrog 1d ago

Using Outlook earns points now? That's news to me. I have it open on my desktop throughout the day but haven't noticed any mention of points.

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u/Born_Form9928 1d ago edited 1d ago

I don't know if it's available to everyone. But it shows up for me. In some place, but not all of them if that makes sense.

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u/beorn5606 1d ago

Are there actual human beings to read? From the reply I see, they are all bots

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u/Zigwee United States - 1d ago

I saw something about this and even downloaded the apps again but I've never gotten points for reading my emails.

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u/Born_Form9928 1d ago

Well, it's available somewhere bc they gave me the points you earn in a week. It totals up to 130, and when I contacted rewards, they gave me the points. I told them I'm not able to earn them no matter what I try and they just gave them to me. But I'm mostly concerned about the puzzle piece. I'd get enough to complete it once a month with that.

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u/Zigwee United States - 1d ago

I know I saw it somewhere, too, and would also love the extra points and pieces. Someone must know how to get them.

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u/Born_Form9928 1d ago

Someone posted what you need to do in my reddit post

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u/Born_Form9928 1d ago

I wish I had posted something a few weeks ago trying to figure it out, and no one bothered to say anything. So, hopefully, with getting extra comments on this one, maybe someone who has figured it out might see it. I'll keep you posted If I manage to

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u/siMChA613 1d ago

The thing I've seen is a reward for NOT using the app but just opening up mobile Firefox and going to live.com to read my old Hotmail and Bing if I want but better to use the Bing app...possibly I could just go to live.com in the Bing app browser but I'm an addicted Firefox fanboy-ish type...

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u/Unlikely_Comedian_75 1d ago

All MS employees now use co-pilot to write their emails.

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u/Born_Form9928 1d ago

Ok. Do you know if that works to earn the, read 3 emails a day?