E-mail Management

Gmail IMAP – Solving the [Gmail] separation

Don’t like the additional [Gmail] folder structure when you configure your Gmail mailbox as an IMAP account in Outlook? This guide contains instructions how to do so and how it will affect your Gmail experience.

Using Outlook.com with your own domain or current email address

Using an Outlook.com account is a great alternative for your current POP3 or IMAP account if you want to sync your emails, contacts and calendar items with multiple devices such as your desktop, laptop, netbook, tablet or smartphone. It behaves a lot like a personal (hosted) Exchange or Office 365 account but for free. You can set it up with an @outlook.com address, your own domain but also with an address you already have from another provider like Gmail.

Count Selected Items macro

With this macro you can quickly find out how many items you have selected as unlike File Explorer, Outlook does not reveal this in the Status Bar.

Categorize Sent Items

This guide contains a macro you can use to easily set or never forget to set categories on your outgoing messages. In addition it includes information about how to strip or leave the assigned categories for the recipient.

Rename the default folders of a mailbox

Need to change or reset the names of the default Outlook folders? Even though the “Rename Folder” option for these folders is disabled, you can still rename them in the following way.

Export folder names to a file

Want to export your list of folder names to a file? This guide provides 2 methods to do that; via a VBScript file that can run outside of Outlook (quickest method) and by using a macro.

Send/Receive errors

There are many reasons why sending or receiving a message could fail. This guide provides solutions to solve your send/receive errors with Outlook.