Outlook is a standalone or groupware client for Microsoft Exchange. It is used for Email, contacts, tasks and calendar.
Questions tagged [outlook]
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How to configure email autoconfiguration for a domain?
Outlook and a number of other email clients now feature autodiscovery of mail server settings and it bugs me that I don't have this set up for our domains, but I'm not sure how to do it and a quick google hasn't turned up anything. I presume it's…
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Linux clients for Exchange (email and) calendar
At $work, the official email solution is Outlook on Windows, connected to an Exchange server. That's problematic for people with Linux on their desktop machine.
The Exchange server supports IMAP, and e-mail works fairly well using the usual…
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When I have a * entry in my zone file, how can I treat a specific name as nonexistent?
On our main domain, example.com we're hosting a lot of websites. So we just added a * A/AAAA record to our zone and pointed it at our webserver.
Sadly, this also causes Outlook to constantly hammer our webserver, because now autodiscover.example.com…
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Outlook security alert - The name on the security certificate is invalid or does not match the name of the site
SBS 2008 running Exchange 2007 and IIS6.0
CompanyA has two other companies that operate under the same roof. To accommodate email, we have 3 Exchange accounts per user to manage this. All users use their CompanyA account to log into the…
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What is the cause of FAST I/O DISALLOWED errors? (Causing Outlook to open attachments really slowly)
When a colleague tries to open attachments in her email (Outlook 2003 talking to an Exchange 2007 server) they take ages to open. The files are relatively small, all less than 1MB.
We've tried creating a new Windows profile for the user and tried…
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Email bounce back 550 5.1.1 recipient rejected
A client recently switched to Exchange Server / Outlook for their email. Since then emails from my company to any email address at their company bounce back from the System Administrator with this error:
Your message did not reach some or all of…
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outlook requiring password after exchange reboot
We recently moved from Exchange 2003 to 2010, and have noticed a quirk that is annoying us.
If our exchange server (single server) goes down, ie it gets rebooted, or client loses connectivity (or for example a reboot is done overnight and the users…
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outlook 2016 (office 365) using incorrect time zone for emails
I have two users in Taipei time zone.
Both are using PCs with system time correctly set to Taipei time.
Both have an Office 365 E3 Enterprise account on the same tenant and have Office 2016 installed.
Both use Outlook 2016 for their email needs and…
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Outlook Calendar Icon Question. Why is there a line through the recurring symbol
Why is there a line through the recurring meeting symbol on an outlook calendar event?
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Abnormally high Outlook 2010 RAM usage for one Terminal Server user (RDS)
I'm working on a busy Windows 2008R2 Terminal Server where a particular user's Outlook session consumes between 2GB and 4GB of RAM.
The process doesn't appear to be a slow memory leak, as the RAM is utilized almost immediately after the process…
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ScanOST Vs. ScanPST
When an OST file is corrupted, Outlook (2007) complains:
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Errors have been detected in the file blah.ost. Quit Outlook and all mail-enabled applications, and then use the Inbox repair tool(Scanpst.exe) to diagnose and repair the file
"""
Living…
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How to check if a mail server is flagged as SPAM by GMail?
I am using POSTFIX for sending mails. The mails that are sent from my mail server - mydomain.com are marked as SPAM in GMail. In other E-mail services like Yahoo and RediffMail, the mails are received in the Inbox folder.
The SPF record is v=spf1…
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Configuring Monit to Send Mail through Office365
I'm trying to configure monit to send emails through Office365. Here's the relevant configuration:
set mailserver smtp.office365.com port 587
username "username" password "password"
using tlsv1
with timeout 30 seconds
Unfortunately, it…
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Display a TLS icon for messages that are TLS secured (Outlook)
One of my colleagues at a large financial institution has customised Lotus Notes to show a TLS icon for messages that are TLS secured.
I'm interested in imitating this feature in Outlook, and believe this requires VBScript, custom forms, and…
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Outlook Encrypted Emails boo boo
I just reinstalled my Windows OS 7 and forgot to backup my Email Certificate for Outlook 2010 beforehand. Now I can't read any encrypted emails. When I try, it says "Cannot open this item. Your Digital ID name cannot be found by the underlying…
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