Apply sensitivity labels to email messages in Outlook

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Outlook para Microsoft 365 Novo Outlook para Windows

You can apply sensitivity labels to your files and emails to keep them compliant with your organization's information protection policies.

Sensitivity labels are configured by your administrator and because they're published to users rather than locations such as sites and mailboxes, users in the same organization might see different sensitivity labels to apply. Sensitivity labels help classify and protect your organization's data without compromising productivity or collaboration. Administrators must have previously configured sensitivity labels and published them to you.

Note

This feature is only available to individuals with a work or school account and a qualifying Microsoft 365 subscription. For more info, see Does my version of Office support sensitivity labels?

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If the steps under this New Outlook tab don't work, you may not be using new Outlook for Windows yet. Select Classic Outlook and follow those steps instead.

Apply a sensitivity label in new Outlook

When composing an email in new Outlook, select Sensitivity on the Message tab in the Tags group.
Choose the sensitivity label that applies to your email.

To remove an existing sensitivity label, unselect it from the Sensitivity menu.
You won't be able to remove a label if your organization requires labels on all email messages.

Note

Information Rights Management (IRM) protection can't be applied to a message that's already signed or encrypted using S/MIME. To apply IRM protection, S/MIME signature and encryption must be removed from the message. The same applies for IRM-protected messages; users can't sign or encrypt them by using S/MIME. For more information about S/MIME see, Encrypt emails with S/MIME or Microsoft 365 Message Encryption in Outlook.