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
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’
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
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
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
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
How to use the Outlook View Control on an Access form When Office 2000 was introduced, and the Outlook View Control first became available, I tried it out, but found it so buggy and difficult to work with that I set it aside as unusable. Recently, I decided to try
Three places to save password information in MS Office. Ideally each login to a computer or web site should have its own password but it’s a given that we all use the same passwords too often. Remembering all those passwords is hard enough but you also have to remember the
20 new bugs in Outlook patched. Even though Office 2007 Service Pack 2 has been out only a short time there is already a patch for Outlook 2007. This ‘hotfix’ is temporary and a ‘ not fully tested’ update. It is dated 30 April 2009 – only a few days
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,
Even after Service Pack 2, there are more fixes for Office 2007. Service Pack 2 has been out less than a week and already there are more fixes for Office 2007. These ‘hotfixes’ are temporary and ‘ not fully tested’ updates. Most are dated 30 April 2009 – only a
New anti-spam downloads for MS Outlook Around the same time as Office 2007 Service Pack 2 was released, so were some Outlook spam filter updates. Outlook 2003 and 2007 have an anti-spam filter included. Because spammers are constantly trying new tactics to avoid those filters the Outlook filter needs updating
How could MS Outlook’s ‘special’ features mess up a cake? Gotta love this story from Amit Agarwal at Digital Inspiration: Wegman’s bakery in New York has a personalised cake service – send them an email with the message and they’ll supply a special cake with your message on top of all that
Some highlights and low lights of Service Pack 2. Only 24 hours since Office 2007 Service Pack 2 was released, here are some highlights and lowlights that have caught our eye. Over the coming weeks we’ll look at some features in detail and, hopefully, report as Microsoft discloses more information
Microsoft boasts of a 26% faster Outlook 2007 – why a two year wait? We’re promised a faster Outlook 2007 with Service Pack 2, however promises that “Outlook 2007 SP2 is 26 percent faster than its predecessor on a set of common e-mail tasks and is even faster, 35 percent,
Official fix list for Outlook 2007 SP2 both the summary and the complete list Here’s the official fix list for Outlook 2007 SP2 both the summary and the complete list. We’ve published it here for easy reference instead of hunting around Microsoft’s web site and an Excel worksheet. This list
SP2 is out soon, but don’t rush in. Microsoft has announced that Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) will be released later this month, at least to corporate users of Windows Service Update Services (WSUS). UPDATE: it’s now confirmed for 28 April 2009. WSUS is a way for administrators to
The Feb 09 update for Outlook 2007 disables an add-in that you don’t have. If you install the February 2009 Cumulative Update for Outlook 2007 then dig around the list of add-ins you may see an entry you don’t expect. Go to Tools | Trust Center | Add-ins | Manage
An Outlook 2007 update can make your startup take over an hour. A Cumulative Update for Outlook 2007 has some unexpected concerns and the usual set of mixed messages from Microsoft. The February 2009 Cumulative Update for Outlook 2007 is a collection of fixes, Microsoft releases these ‘CU’ bundles from
From: Microsoft Microsoft’s list of bugs fixed and improvements in the February 2009 Cumulative Update package. Here’s Microsoft’s list of bugs fixed in the February 2009 Cumulative Update package as at 18 March 2009. It’s worth noting that the vast majority of the now fixed bugs and improvements were NOT
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 |
There is a ‘new’ junk email filter update for Outlook 2007 – but questions remain about these updates. There is a ‘new’ junk email filter update for Outlook 2007 – but questions remain about these updates. Outlook 2007 Outlook 2007 users can update their junk email filter by downloading from
