Outlook 2013 and the return of Unread messages
Unread messages view returns in Outlook 2013.Viewing ‘Unread mails only’ has returned as a classic ‘flip flop’ from Microsoft. Outlook 2010 dropped the ‘Unread messages’ view because Microsoft assured us their testing showed that people didn’t want or use that feature. Really? People didn’t want to see just unread messages? In what alternate universe did […]
How big is your Outlook?
Find the size of your Outlook data files, then don’t worry about it. Checking the size of your Outlook data files is pretty easy, you can also find out which folders are taking up space. In any version of Outlook (we checked Outlook 2010, Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2003) right-click on the top level of […]
Reply or Forward messages with image links
Is there a security risk when you forward or reply to a message? A reader writes: “if you forward the message (we’re supposed to forward SPAM messages to a particular internal mailbox for analysis, etc.) that fetches the image and reveals the IP and other information sent by the web browser. I really wish there […]
Image Privacy in Outlook
‘Click here to download images’ in Outlook may seem like a nuisance but it’s there for a good reason Why does Outlook prompt you to download images with messages – instead of just getting them? The ‘Click here to download images’ may seem like a nuisance but it’s there for a good reason It may […]
About the Hidden Outlook info image
About the special ‘Hidden info’ image included in Office for Mere Mortals. As part of an article on Outlook security Office-Watch.com made a special ‘image’ that displays, within an email, some system information sent by Outlook to the Internet. This image was included in Office for Mere Mortals for Monday 4 June 2012 and Office […]
Catching ATT bogus messages
Make Outlook trap the latest ATT bogus messages, even if you’re an ATT customer. Every once in a while, spammers make a new email that bypasses even the High junk email setting in Outlook. When that happens you need to setup your own rule to remove them, until Microsoft’s spam filter catches up. In this […]
Changing the ‘Send To .. Mail Recipient’ Windows command
How to change the Windows Send to email option to something less annoying and more directly useful. For a long time Windows has an option to select a file in Explorer and email it. Right-click on a file, choose ‘Send to’ then one from the list of options. The exact list depends on what you […]
Email Aliases in Office 365
There is no catch-all email in Office 365 but aliases are buried in the configuration. Yet even then they aren’t properly implemented. The Office 365 implementation of email aliases is a typical Microsoft minimal effort. They’ve done enough so they can say Office 365 has ‘aliases’ but lacks the depth of work to deal with […]
Moving a PST to Gmail
How to copy an Outlook PST into Gmail or other online email storage. Leigh O. asks: “I cannot find any instructions on how to upload the .pst file into Gmail which is what I am using now.” You can’t upload a PST file to Gmail (or any other email service that we’re aware of). To […]
Office 365 time zone hassles
Office 365 mis-handles email read receipts and tracking with the Monrovia / Reykjavik time zone. There’s an ongoing complaint about Office 365’s response to email read receipts and other email tracking. When an Office 365 user asks for a read receipt, the receipt comes back with a time zone of ‘UTC Monrovia / Reykjavik’ not […]
Outlook Web Apps – time zone change
How to change the time zone setting in Outlook Web Apps and how it’s a workaround for an Outlook problem. Anyone who has Outlook Web Apps can use it to workaround a long-standing problem in Outlook – multiple time zone display. Outlook has always given limited time zone support. For some reason Microsoft doesn’t seem […]
Moving existing Outlook data
How to move existing Outlook items to an Office 365 or any other new email setup. Now that you have an Office 365 account working in Outlook you can copy your current Tasks, Contacts and Calendar from your current Outlook store into the Office 365 account. In short, open up the existing Outlook folder and […]
Copying many items in Outlook – troubleshooting
Copying or moving many items in Outlook isn’t easy – here’s how to avoid Outlook’s deficiencies. For as long as Outlook has existed, there have been problems when you copy or move many items around. Here are some suggestions from years of experience and frustration. When transferring many items, Outlook gets bogged down terribly. You’ll […]
Share a single Outlook with Remote Desktop
How to use a single copy of Outlook on multiple machines. There’s an easy way to run a single copy of Outlook and use it on multiple machines – Remote Desktop. We’ve heard from many Outlook users who move their PST data files between a laptop and desktop computers. We’re happy to say there’s a […]
Remote Desktop configuration
Some important options for Windows Remote Desktop connections. Here’s a quick tour of some Remote Desktop options available when you click the Options button on bottom left of the opening dialog: General For the faster start of a remote connection, click ‘Allow me to save credentials’ and type a user name into the box. You’ll […]
Office 365 message limits
Office 365 has some unusual limits on the number and size of messages you can send or receive. Office 365 has some restrictions on emails and how many you can send, but some are not calculated the usual way. Message Size The size of an email message is always calculated ‘all up’. Not just the […]
