Really obvious spam/phishing messages not caught by Microsoft’s spam filters. You’d think that a very short message with only a web link that has an IP number not domain name would go straight to the Junk Email folder but no. On our test machines (Exchange Server and Outlook 2013 with
StartSSl offers free digital certificates for your Outlook email – here’s how to get yours Email digital signatures aren’t used a lot which is a shame because they are very useful. Signed emails are verified to come from you while it’s possible to encrypt your messages (to prevent anyone else
Control your Facebook photo as displayed to others via Outlook. Are you aware that your Facebook photo shows up for anyone with Outlook? We ask because at Office-Watch.com we see a lot of readers emails and some of the photos make us wonder is the sender realizes the Facebook shot
What to look for in emails that might be up to no good. Ernst and Young in conjunction with the FBI has developed a tool to check for fraud via email conversations. The software looks for key phrases that are often used when people are discussing something they should not
How we can change as ‘paperwork’ has changed. A new book has an interesting take on how culture and business has changed as paperwork and filing has changed. The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork by Ben Kafka is about bureaucracy and paperwork, something rarely considered by historians.
Can you find text only within email attachments? A standard Outlook search will include text in attachments automatically, just type in the word or phrase and Outlook will go hunting for you. A reader asks if you can limit the search to just the attachments and not the message text?
How to keep getting your Gmail even when it’s not working Gmail had another outage which continues as we type this, at least that’s how it was reported. In fact the core Gmail system was still working, only the web interface was broken. This has happened before and Office-Watch.com has
The Taliban sends CC’s instead of BCC’s and reveals their contact list. It’s somehow comforting to know that even the worlds most feared terrorist group can make email mistakes just like anyone else. ABC News in the USA reports that Qari Yousuf Ahmedi, a Taliban spokesman, sent out a press
There’s many ways you can arrange your Inbox in Outlook. Whenever we look at the Outlook setup used by other people, two things are striking. One is that few people change the default layout provided by Microsoft to something that suits them. We’ll look at that another time. The other
Office 2013 and Windows 8 is a bad combo if you want subtle mail alerts. Anyone trying Outlook 2013 Preview on Windows 8 is in for an unpleasant surprise – mail Desktop Alerts have changed and not for the better. In Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 there are mail desktop
Sanebox is an interesting twist on email organizing. Sanebox is a new service receiving acclaim for the novel way to arrange your email. Usually, email organizing is done when messages arrive. The incoming message is moved to a folder, tagged, changed priority etc according to preset rules. Sanebox is a
If you don’t like outlook.com you can return to Hotmail – for now. If you’ve tried Outlook.com mail service and don’t like it, you can switch back to the Hotmail interface easily. On the top right of the Outlook.com page is a ‘gear’ icon, click on that and then choose
The new version of Hotmail is called ‘Outlook’ – just ‘Outlook’ – at least on the web site itself. The new version of Hotmail is called ‘Outlook’ – just ‘Outlook’ – at least on the web site itself. In the promotional material for the new service it’s called Outlook.com which
How to connect Outlook software to Outlook.com With the announcement of Outlook.com as a replacement for Hotmail there was one glaring omission – how to sync with Outlook software. Now we know why – the existing Hotmail connector to Outlook software does work but hasn’t been updated yet. So the
The latest version of Hotmail has some interesting features and an invitation to confusion. The latest version of Hotmail has some interesting features and an invitation to confusion. It’s called Outlook.com and is available as a preview now. Go to Outlook.com and sign in with your Microsoft, Windows Live or
A fully revised new edition of one of our most popular ebooks, Organizing Outlook Email, for Outlook 2010 We’re delighted to announce a fully revised new edition of one of our most popular ebooks Organizing Outlook Email for Outlook 2010 We’ll take you through all the email management features available
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
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
‘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
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
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
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
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
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
