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 […]
How to stop Office 365 sending emails with ‘on behalf of’ in the sender or FROM line. One major hassle with Office 365 is that messages sent using connected accounts don’t have a normal ‘FROM’ line. Instead they show the Office 365 internal domain ‘ on behalf of’ your connected account. For example an Office […]
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 […]
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 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 […]