A ‘support’ message you should definitely ignore. Going the rounds at the moment is a fake support message with an infected attachment. The only thing you should do with such a message is DELETE IT since Outlook’s own protection doesn’t catch it. Microsoft never distributes updates or patches via email
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
The @ symbol was used back in 1536 – 473 years ago today. The Lede blog for the New York Times notes that today is the 473’d anniversary of the first recorded use of the @ symbol. It’s found in a letter from a Florentine merchant and, from the context,
Gmail stopped working, but Outlook users didn’t have to worry. Saul Hansell at the New York Times is reporting on an outage on the popular Gmail service. The Gmail breakdown happened at the start of the working day in Europe and lasted until about lunchtime. Early risers in the USA
A new wave of fake job applications and responses isn’t caught by Outlook. Spammers aren’t completely stupid, they release a new type of infected email that isn’t caught by the Outlook Junk Email filter even when it’s set to ‘High’ ( Actions | Junk E-mail | Junk E-mail Options |
Google’s online email service Gmail can now be used in your web browser even if you don’t have an Internet connection. We show you how to do it and why using Outlook is still a good first choice. Google’s online email service Gmail can now be used in your web
There is an error on the Microsoft Support web site regarding the date and version of the latest Junk Email filter update for Outlook 2007. ” I like to ensure I have the latest spam filter for Outlook 2007 but the details on the Microsoft web site don’t match what
You install Office 2007, Outlook Express 6 (the one that comes with Windows XP) loses most of its spell checking ability. Office Watch friend, Peter Mc writes: “So you upgrade to Office 2007 and it breaks the spell checking in Outlook Express (as I have just discovered with my wife’s
A current example of what to watch for and what to do when Outlook doesn’t detect a new type of spam message. In the last day or so we’ve started seeing some obvious spam messages in our Inbox. ‘Obvious’ to us but not to Outlook 2007’s Junk e-mail filter on
Future Office Watch newsletters will include DomainKeys authentication. Future Office Watch newsletters will include DomainKeys authentication. DomainKeys is a method of verifying that the sender and content of a message really comes from the web site it’s alleged to be sent from. Many popular Internet services such as Yahoo and
More fake news emails from ‘CNN’ and now ‘MSNBC’ aren’t picked up by Outlook. Once a spammer or phishing baddie finds a way to bypass common spam filters they or copy-cats will quickly take advantage with similar messages. After the ‘successful’ message pretending to be from CNN and their ‘Daily
Google’s free Gmail service is still forging ahead with improvements to make it a compelling email host – not just for web based email but also for people with almost any email program. It’s a service that is far better than what most ISP’s give you with an Internet connection.
Google has a path to migrate your Exchange Server or Lotus Notes mail stores to Google Apps for Domains. Google has released a clear pathway to migrate corporate email from Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes to their Google Apps for Domains service. It uses the IMAP feature in Exchange or
Why the Deleted Items folder is your friend There’s a feeling around for some people that they need to keep their Outlook ‘clean’ or ‘uncluttered’ with messages removed from the Inbox immediately and even the deleted items folder kept empty. While this sounds like a good idea, it’s really not
