It is sometimes necessary to start the desktop email client Outlook with startup parameters, usually to resolve issues or troubleshoot the email client. System administrators and tech savvy users should not have difficulties finding a list of available shortcuts and adding them to the start of the email client. Everyone else might like the free [...]

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Setting up new email accounts can be a tedious and complicated task. Many users do not like this initial configuration, as it requires quite some work to add the incoming and outgoing email servers, ports, security settings, and account login information. That’s why several email programs have added features to automatically discover most of the [...]

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Microsoft’s popular desktop email client Outlook blocks specific attachments by default, in order to increase the security of the system. File attachments with extensions such as exe or reg will be blocked by the email program to avoid unnecessary dangers to the system. This sometimes however blocks legit file attachments from being accessible after they [...]

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Most email providers limit the maximum size of attachments to a specific number, usually between five and 25 Megabytes. Companies like Microsoft have even started to offer workarounds by combining their email service (Hotmail) with offsite storage (Skydrive) to bypass attachment size limits. Users of Microsoft Outlook 2010 may have noticed that the email client [...]

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Outlook Tools is a third party software for Microsoft Outlook that provides support and advanced settings for users working with the email client on a regular basis. The free software program will automatically scan the PC on startup for an installed version of Microsoft Outlook. The relevant file paths and information are displayed in the [...]

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Microsoft Outlook Hotmail Connector 14.0 final has just been released by Microsoft. Outlook Connector allows Outlook users to manage Windows Live Hotmail email, calendar and contacts from within Outlook. The new version of the Outlook Hotmail Connector plugin is compatible with Outlook 2003, 2007 and the brand new Outlook 2010. The development team has added [...]

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Microsoft Outlook automatically displays a list of contacts and email addresses based on the first characters that are typed in by the Outlook user. This autocomplete feature can be used to quickly select a contact without having to enter the complete contact information manually. The autocomplete list in Outlook is populated automatically whenever new information [...]

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E-Mails can be send to one or multiple users. A problem arises when sending out mails to multiple users as there is no way of personalizing emails for individual recipients except for using scripts that need to be added to the email. (Thunderbird can for instance do that with the mass mail and personal mail [...]

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It can happen that duplicate pst files appear in Microsoft Outlook. These files are sometimes referred to as ghost files which are displayed in the folder list and other folder views in the email client. These duplicate pst files can be very problematic as they usually cannot be deleted easily from Outlook. Error messages such [...]

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