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Imported IMAP folders are not visible or don’t show any content

IMAP Folders buttonWhen you’ve exported your IMAP mailbox or specific folders to a pst-file which you then later open in Outlook or import into an Exchange or Outlook.com mailbox, you may be shocked to see that these folders don’t contain anything.

Additionally, when you configure this mailbox on a smartphone or tablet as an Exchange ActiveSync account, these folders may not show at all.

Luckily, this can be fixed without any data loss but the process to do so via MFCMAPI is not for the faint of heart or when you have many folder to fix.

Therefor, this guide also contains a script which you can run to apply the fix for you. You can either fix a single folder, a folder and its subfolders or your entire mailbox at once.

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Posted on: June 13, 2017

Quick Tips for week 21

Quick Tips

This week’s new and updated Quick Tips highlights from HowTo-Outlook’s Q&A blog MSOutlook.info:

These tips and other headlines can also be followed via twitter

Posted on: May 26, 2017

Outlook 2016 Update for May 2017

News

A Rollup Update has been released for Outlook 2016. This is a non-security update which contains 20 documented improvements and fixes.

Most notable fixes are:

  • Reminders aren’t created after you import webcal calendars. To fix this issue, you can now set the AllowReminderCreation Registry value.
  • When a delegate opens a meeting request, some respond buttons, such as the Accept, Tentative, and Decline buttons, aren’t displayed.
  • Disables the message rule actions to start an application or run a macro (VBA script). To re-enable them, you can set the EnableUnsafeClientMailRules Registry value.
  • Adds the ability to view signed HTML email messages in the HTML format via the ShowSignedMessagesInNativeFormat Registry value, even when you have Outlook configured to force Plain Text.
  • When you use a POP or an IMAP account, some received email messages have a blank body.

Office 365 subscribers have also received a feature update; Attachment widths expand visually to fit the file name and permission information and there is also a new Dubai font.

View: Download information for KB3191883

Note: This update can be installed via Microsoft Update or the Update Now button when you are using Office 365 and updates Outlook to version 16.0.4534.1001 (msi-based installation) or 16.0.7967.2139 (Office 365 based installation).

Posted on: May 3, 2017

Outlook 2013 Update for May 2017

News

A Rollup Update has been released for Outlook 2013. This is a non-security update which contains 3 documented improvements and fixes.

  • Reminders aren’t created after you import webcal calendars. To fix this issue, you can now set the AllowReminderCreation Registry value.
  • You may receive unexpected prompts to save changes.
  • When you use a POP or an IMAP account, some received email messages have a blank body.

View: Download information for KB3191889

Note: This update can be installed via Microsoft Update or the Update Now button when you are using Office 365 and updates Outlook to version 15.0.4927.1001.

Posted on: May 3, 2017
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