‘Plus’ email addressing (aka sub-address or disposable email) is a really useful option for managing your incoming messages, if your mail host allow them. The + trick lets you change the email address given out while still letting the messages to a single mailbox. A ‘plus’ email address looks like this fred+sheep@fredagg.com – the real […]
How to open the Outlook Connection Status box to see what type of connection Outlook for Windows is making to each mailbox. It’s hiding on an Outlook menu most people don’t even know about. Microsoft’s instructions aren’t complete, try this: Outlook for Windows must be running Open the notification pane on the bottom right of […]
How to get rid of an email conversation or thread in Outlook – it’s called Ignore or Mute. Sometimes you get emails on a topic that doesn’t matter to you and is cluttering up your Inbox. Outlook for Windows has a fairly simple solution – the Ignore button. Ignore tells Outlook to move all existing and […]
In many situations, there’s common text or even whole messages that you want to reuse in emails. Here’s an option to save and add that text with a single click. It’s a lot faster, more consistent and already in Microsoft Outlook. Outlook has a feature that’s good for recycling text for emails. Strictly speaking, Word […]
Microsoft Outlook was blamed for a 2015 leak of passport details of world leaders, including President Obama, according to a report in The Guardian. Here’s what happened then, how it can still happen now and what you can do to avoid the same trap. The details where emailed to the wrong person by the Australian […]
