It isn’t very common that Outlook doesn’t close on it’s own. Practically always this is caused by an add-in or another application which integrates with Outlook. At that time, you’d usually see the outlook.exe process still running in Task Manager as well.
Once this troublesome add-in is disabled or updated or the other application is closed, the problem will be gone and Outlook will close normally again.
Continue reading: Outlook doesn’t close or outlook.exe process keeps running
An Out of Office Assistant (OOF) allows you to set an automatic reply message when you are away. How to enable this depends on which Outlook version that you are using and which mail account type that you are using.
While this is primarily an Exchange account feature, there are several workarounds for POP3 and IMAP accounts as well.
Continue reading: Out of Office Assistant / Automatic Replies / Vacation Responder
An Outlook mail profile is a combination of settings and files to support the configured accounts. A single mail profile can contain multiple mail accounts and different account types such as POP3, IMAP, Exchange and Outlook.com accounts.
However, in some cases it might be recommended or required to create an additional Mail Profile or to recreate the current one.
Missing little things can be a big pain as well; like missing the new mail envelope in the Notification Area (also known as the System Tray).
This guide explains when to expect an envelope and what to do if it does not show.
While you can minimize Outlook to the Notification Area (also known as the System Tray), it is not recommended to do so when you also have Outlook pinned to the Taskbar.
Continue reading: Can Outlook minimize to the Notification Area?
It doesn’t happen too often but when a message is stuck in the Outbox it can be a real pain and may prevent you from sending and receiving other emails as well.
Below you’ll find 5 methods to get the message out of the Outbox.
It could happen real easy; A wrong Move To Folder… command or a misplaced Drag & Drop and suddenly the items end up in the top mailbox folder which holds the Outlook Today page.
When you select this folder, the Outlook Today page will show your upcoming Calendar appointments and Tasks up but none of the messages are shown.
So how can you still retrieve these messages you wonder?
Continue reading: What happens to mails dragged or moved to the top Mailbox folder (Outlook Today)?
It’s probably one of the most annoying things; receiving the same e-mail multiple times. Actually, I’m not talking about just a single e-mail here but basically all your e-mails and not just twice but LOTS of times.
This article discusses the most common configuration issues which lead to e-mail duplication and how to prevent them from happening again.
Continue reading: Duplicate E-mails: Prevention and clean up tips
While you can create a rule to automatically Cc someone when sending a message, unfortunately an automatic Bcc is not possible.
Still, there are various valid reasons to want to do this. For instance, to automatically inform your colleagues or manager, or automatically send it to a mailbox where it is being picked up by a knowledge base process or put into a CRM system.
In these cases, a Bcc is often preferred over a Cc as it would expose these internal addresses to an external recipient.
In this guide, you’ll learn how to use a VBA macro to still be able to automatically Bcc your emails. Additional code modifications are provided to make it conditional, so it would only Bcc depending on the subject, a Category or importance, just like you can with a normal rule.
Don’t like VBA macros? No worries, there are also add-ins, which we can highly recommend, that can do the job.
Continue reading: Automatically Bcc someone when sending an email
CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) errors are indicating errors with a specific file and in lot of cases with your hard disk.
It doesn’t indicate a problem with Outlook itself but a problem with the place on the hard disk where your pst-file is located.
When this occurs after you have just copied the pst-file (on disk, from network, from CD, by download) you should first verify that the original source still works and try to copy it again. If this has happened “all of a sudden” like in that it still worked yesterday, the issue can be either software based or hardware based.
Continue reading: CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) errors on pst-file
