An email renovation project
How to renovate your email to make it better, faster and generally gorgeous.Following on from Ray’s message about sharing an email account, we have some suggestions for a better way to share email and generally renovate your all important email access. Ray has found a system that works for him and it’s typical of ‘make […]
Sharing email accounts in Outlook
One readers solution to sharing email accounts across several copies of Outlook. Office Watch reader, Ray T tells us how he manages to run Outlook on several computers working from the same email account plus some problems in doing that. This is the first part, in a follow up article we have some suggestions on […]
Gmail ‘fails’ again – but not if you’re prepared
How to get your Gmail even when it’s down. The headlines were ominous – Google’s Gmail service has crashed leaving people without their email. But it wasn’t a problem for anyone who was prepared for an outage. While it’s true that Gmail had problems last week, but not everyone was affected, a point that most […]
IMAP in Outlook – extra notes
Sundry notes to round out our coverage of IMAP in Outlook. Flags With Outlook you can only set flags on IMAP messages that are in the Inbox or any other folder but you cannot send or receive messages which are flagged. The Quick click flag option where you can customize the date for the flag […]
Gmail stars and Outlook
Working with Gmail ‘starred’ messages in Outlook If you have used Gmail then you must be aware of the “Starred folder” (shown within the red circle in the below screenshot). In Gmail Stars are meant to give messages a special status to make them find easier when you search for particular mails. In Outlook instead […]
Fix IMAP message downloading in Outlook
Speeding up the message sync between Outlook and your email host. Outlook’s default action for IMAP accounts is to download the message header only; you have to mark the message for full download. That was probably a good idea when dial-up modems ruled the earth but is more of a nuisance now. Most people will […]
Using IMAP with other accounts in Outlook
Tricks for handling more than one email account in Outlook It’s NOT a good idea to have both POP and IMAP connections running to the same email host. That’s because the POP connection will usually delete messages on the host when they are moved to Outlook, once deleted they’ll be removed from any IMAP replicated […]
IMAP Subscribed Folders in Outlook
With IMAP you can choose which folders on the email host to copy to Outlook. With IMAP you can choose which folders on the email host to copy to a local device. With Outlook you’ll probably want to replicate all folders so you can view anything you need when offline. It also makes backups more […]
Activating IMAP in Gmail
How to turn on IMAP on Google’s Gmail service. In order to make your email host connect with IMAP it may need to be configured in the host settings. This isn’t always necessary, in fact usually IMAP is turned on at the email host already. However Gmail requires you to turn on IMAP (or POP) […]
Setting up IMAP in Outlook
So you’d like to try IMAP? Here’s step-by-step instructions on how to setup Outlook for an IMAP connection. In this series we’ll look at how to setup IMAP. We’ll use Gmail as our host example because it’s free and well supported, however any IMAP host should work (most ISP based mail systems support IMAP). Although […]
Using IMAP with Outlook
Why you might prefer IMAP to get your email into Outlook. What are IMAP and POP? IMAP and POP are methods for retrieving email from an email host like your ISP, Hotmail, Yahoo, and Gmail so you can access it from your desktop through some of the common desktop email applications like Outlook. IMAP is […]
Outlook 2010 complaints – they’re right but too late
Don’t get your hopes up, Office 2010 is a done deal. A few weeks ago a curious campaign started, mostly via Twitter, to ask Microsoft is ‘fix‘ Outlook 2010. The complaint is about the way Outlook creates HTML formatted emails, which is the way most people send emails with ‘full’ formatting like fonts, headings, images […]
Google Apps Sync disables Outlook Search
Microsoft has been crowing mightily about a problem with Google Apps Sync. Microsoft has been crowing mightily about a problem with Google Apps Sync. Google Apps Sync is a utility to synchronize Outlook email, calendar and contacts with the Google Apps online services. According to Microsoft, when you install Google Apps Sync the program will […]
Why deleted emails aren’t gone
Like many things with Outlook, even a simple thing like deletion isn’t simple at all. Microsoft has designed Outlook to give you options to recover items deleted accidently. Australian newspapers are leading with ‘UteGate’ – believe it or not. It started with an email supposedly sent from the Prime Ministers department, but can’t be found. […]
Office 2007 Service Pack 2 – some time on
A look at the progress of Office 2007 SP2 – bugs fixed or not. It has been over a month since Office 2007 Service Pack 2 was released. Here’s a look Outlook 2007 won’t start We mentioned reports of Outlook 2007 not starting after SP2 was installed. Those initial reports appear to be a problem […]
New Outlook 2007 help arrives
The SP2 updated help files have finally appeared. When Service Pack 2 was released there were also new help files for all parts of Office 2007 with the notable exception of Outlook 2007. At the time we called the Outlook 2007 help files ‘missing in action‘. In early June the Outlook help files (user and […]
