Diane Poremsky

Installing custom forms from the Microsoft Application farm isn't hard. In most cases, it's as easy as opening the form, or was until Outlook security was tightened down. Now you need to publish the forms yourself. It's still easy but requires a few more steps and a few minutes of your time. Download and run the exe for the form. This extracts the pst containing the form … [Read more...] about Publishing Microsoft Outlook "Application farm" Custom Forms

We see a lot of questions that go something like this: I would like to not only block particular emails but also send them back to the sender so they know they've been rejected. Is that possible. Right now I can only send them to the Junk email folder. Thanks. Yes, you could do this (using an autoreply rule), but why? If the message is from a spammer with a legitimate … [Read more...] about Return an email to the sender

Outlook's behavior with the reply format is to reply in the format of the original message. If someone sends you  plain text message, the reply will always be plain text, because Outlook (rightfully so) assumes the sender prefers mail in that format or can only accept mail in that format. This is good netiquette. In past years, the reasoning behind the decision not to … [Read more...] about Changing Outlook's Reply Format

If you have two (or more) email accounts collecting email and always want to send replies using the default account, Outlook always uses the receiving account when you reply. You can select the correct sending account when you reply, but it's easy to forget to do this. Is there a better way? Yes, provided you never want to send messages using the second account, you … [Read more...] about How to always reply using a different email account