Can Ignition transfer data from a standard form from Outlook Email into a power table?
Not with anything built-in, no. You might be able to script something that polls a mailbox, but that would be pretty difficult with current Outlook security requirements.
If we create an Ignition user that has email, Can we get around that problem?
Not really. At the moment, Ignition supports OAuth2 for sending emails, and nothing in Ignition is set up to ever receive emails. So not only do you have to solve the OAuth2 problem, but you have to set up processes inside Ignition to poll a mailbox. Non-trivial.
Why does it have to be Outlook Forms? Can you not make Perspective forms? So the data is entered directly into Ignition?
Sure, absolutely, will go there. They have an Outlook email now, so I wanted to know if integration was possible at all. thanks!
but you can acknowledge an alarm, via an email, but that is different
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That acknowledgement doesn't go through a reply mail, but by following a web link to the gateway. Again, the Ignition gateway only sends emails.
Technically, Ignition can read emails for alarm acknowledgement back, but only via POP3, with its many associated headaches: Email Alarm Acknowledgement | Ignition User Manual
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TIL. 
But that's awfully close to not being able to read emails. 
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