When you create a message and set the option to not send it until a future date, you’ll always get a message when you close Outlook “Are you sure you want to exit without sending messages?” While it may be clear to you that there is a message waiting to be sent days later,...
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A user has a problem: he often sends large messages and they often get stuck in the Outbox. He forgets to check the Outbox and would like a warning message when messages won’t send. You will not get a dialog that says ‘hey, something is wrong and the message didn’t send’ but you can...
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When you create a new profile or set up a new computer, you’ll want to access your old email in Outlook. While you can use the File, Import and Export menu, we don’t recommend it – you’ll lose any custom forms or custom views you might have, along with a few other things. Outlook...
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“How can I get Outlook to automatically send and receive when I open the program? I have to press F-9 or go to the menu bar TOOLS/SEND AND RECEIVE.” The method is the same for all versions of Microsoft Outlook. You need to browse to Tools, Send and Receive, Send /Receive Settings and find Define Send...
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I frequently tell people to “delete the SRS” to fix problems with send and receives, especially when Outlook crashes when they try to view the Send and Receive menu or do a send and receive. If you haven’t guessed yet, SRS is the send and receive settings file. It holds the configurations found in...
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Note: The Junk mail rule is visible only if you use an Exchange mailbox. If you are looking for a way to completely disable the junk email filter see Disable Outlook’s Junk E-mail Filter. (Outlook 2007/2010 only). Some users are reporting problems with Outlook 2003′s junk email filter not working properly. It ignores names...
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For Microsoft Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 only. Some people don’t want to use Outlook’s Junk filter. They set it to No Automatic Filtering in Junk Email options. This is supposed to stop all filtering except for addresses on the Blocked senders list but some users say the Junk Email filter continues to filter...
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In Microsoft Outlook, I used to be able to click on “File”, and one of the options was “Send to Bluetooth”. When you clicked on the menu, available Bluetooth devices would pop up and you could select which device to send it to. I used this option to send appointments and contacts to my...
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Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Outlook 2003 added two new features: an anti-phishing filter and read-as-plain-text in the Junk email folder. Disabled Hyperlinks The anti-phishing filter disables all URLs in the Junk Email folder and URLs in messages identified as having phishing characteristics. This can be disabled globally (on messages not in the Junk...
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When Outlook tells you that there are unsent messages, its usually because of a stuck read receipt. Learn how to delete the read receipt using MFCMAPI.
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