General

See how you can configure Outlook with an Outlook.com (Hotmail), Gmail, Yahoo!, AOL or iCloud account. The account settings are given for each possible account type and clarified with screenshots.

Sign your own macros with SelfCert.exe so there is no more need to lower your security settings to get rid of VBA macro security prompts.

Deleted a message and even emptied you’re Deleted Items folder? See how you can still try to get your message back via this recovery method.

Make sure your colleagues only get the permissions you want them to have and delegate your mail properly for when you are out of the office.

You probably already know the closed envelope, the open envelop, marked as forwarded, marked as replied and if you are in an Exchange organization the Out of Office icon probably looks familiar as well but do you know the rest? See the full overview of Outlook icons!

Seeing messages being sent or are you getting sending errors without something in the Outbox? This could be a stuck Read Receipt and can be deleted via Microsoft’s free support tool MFCMAPI.

Command line switches can control Outlook start-up behavior for troubleshooting purposes and automation. This guide contains an overview of available command line switches per Outlook version and how they can be used.

For certain actions, Outlook holds a list of most recently used items (MRU lists) so you have quicker access to them. In some cases you might want to clear this MRU list.

This guide is all about backing up and restoring your Outlook Data. It describes various methods and explains which method is best to be used in which scenario.