How many times have you received an email with a large attachment, only to find the attachment is simply a company logo? Or worse still, a badly formatted HTML “corporate e-mail footer” with the popular 250 word, or more, disclaimer.

The beauty of email is that it’s so quick and convenient to fire off an email, as you tab through the fields on the send form, but how many times have you fired one off before it’s completely ready? An accidental key combination here, or a click in the wrong place there and off your [read more...]

If you have them configured in Microsoft Outlook, PST (Personal Storage Table) files are where most of your Outlook activities are stored, including electronic mail, attachments, calendar items, contacts, tasks and notes.  Dealing with oversize PST files can be troublesome but the task can be made much easier with the help of a simple add-in.

In previous versions of Outlook, prior to 2010, it was possible to colour code incoming emails for quicker visual checking. This was achieved by going into Tools, Organize, Using Colours (on the left hand side), selecting From in the Color messages pull down then choosing a colour. In Outlook 2010, this feature has been replaced [read more...]

Here it is – the dev preview of Google Wave. The panes available at the moment include the navigation pane (top left) which currently lets you search and organise waves, contacts (bottom left), search column (second column) and the content pane (on the right). A number of options across the top include your username which [read more...]

An Outlook 2007 user has reported the following error message when trying to forward an email to another internal user. The mail server is Exchange Server 2007. Delivery has failed to these recipients or distribution lists: The e-mail system had a problem processing this message. Microsoft Exchange will not try to redeliver this message for [read more...]

Disappearing “Unread Mail” folder in Microsoft Outlook 2007 When using Microsoft Outlook 2007 you may find your “unread mail” folder mysteriously disappears from time to time – fortunately there is a quick way to get it back. In the Mail Folders list, navigate to the Search Folders option under your Mailbox Right-click the search folders [read more...]

Email Archiving Solutions Introduction There are a number of reasons why email should be archived, including legal, business and practical reasons. In particular, forensic electronic mail archive compliance is playing an increasing part in the archiving requirements for electronic email. An important part of archiving is the search and restore of valuable information – both [read more...]