Outlook.com IMAP Mail Server Settings. Advanced tab – Server Port Numbers: Incoming server (POP3): port 993 – you must also mark the box “this server requires an encrypted connection (SSL)” Outgoing server (SMTP): port 587 – you must also choose “TLS” for the option “Use the following types of encrypted connection”. The SMTP server is a configuration setting within all pop E-mail applications. When using a pop E-mail application such as Eudora, Mail, Microsoft Outlook, Entourage, Netscape, Thunderbird, etc the SMTP server setting must be configured correctly or outgoing mail will not be sent.
One of the staff here is having an Outlook 2003 problem. It seems that when she sends email, it changes the font to show a strikethrough.
Twice I have tried to correct this and here is what happened. When she composed, it showed strikethroughs on her side, and that was it. Now, when she composes, there are no strikethroughs, but when people reply their text has strikethroughs in it. I am out of ideas and thinking of reinstalling Office 2003. I have gone into her settings and did all the common stuff, but still can’t get it to behave. I feel your pain. It’s a problem I commonly experience when replying to other people’s mail.
All of a sudden, what I type doesn’t appear in the style I want it to, and for the life of me, I can’t whack it into shape. At least not without a lot of work.
I think I understand why it happens, and I definitely have some suggestions. Two suggestions, actually. Become a and go ad-free! I believe that the problem stems from very convoluted formatting instructions that are created within the message.
These are the raw instructions that you don’t normally see, but that cause the email to appear the way it does. The instructions I mean are those that do things like indent, and place a bar next to this paragraph, or make this word bold, or embed a bulleted list within the message. It may look simple on the outside, but inside? A convoluted mess. The problem, particularly when replying to a message that contains this convoluted mess, is that the editor you’re using to type and edit your reply, may actually not be able to properly decipher and adjust the existing formatting in a message. For example, you might not be able to indent one paragraph without indenting all paragraphs. You should be able to, but ultimately you cannot.
Using Word to edit email is like driving a Greyhound to visit your next door neighbor. I blame the rich text editors. Or more to the point, I blame Microsoft Word. It is notorious for generating horrible and convoluted HTML. Recommendation #1: stop using Word as your email editor. Using Word to edit email is like driving a Greyhound Bus to visit your next door neighbor.
It’s big, it’s slow, it’s overkill, and if you don’t know how to drive it just so, it can make one heck of a mess. In Outlook, Click on the Tools menu, the Options item, and then click on the Mail Format tab. Now, make sure that both the check boxes that reference Microsoft Word are UNchecked. You’ll still be able to send and receive HTML and Rich Text email, but Outlook will use it’s own, faster and more lightweight editor instead of firing up the 10,000 lb. Gorilla that is Word.
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Recommendation #2: Use plain text messages, and stop sending HTML and Rich Text mail completely. I mean, really, how often do you need all the fancy formatting in your email? If you on the message, the text, then all you need is plain text. This completely eliminates the potential for the formatting problems we’ve been discussing.
As a bonus, your email will be smaller, faster to transmit and display, and much less likely to be erroneously flagged as. In my opinion, 90% of all legitimate email currently being sent in HTML or Rich Text could just as easily, and probably more effectively, be transmitted in Plain Text instead. In Outlook, Click on the Tools menu, the Options item, and then click on the Mail Format tab. Make sure that the dropdown next to Compose in this message format: is set to Plain Text. HTML does have its place – mostly in what I would call “email publishing”, certain types of messages that are truly enhanced by visual representations, and for those that just can’t express themselves without bold, italics, color and who knows what else.
But if your message is in your words, there’s no reason for anything but plain text. Email can be sent in several formats, the most common being plain text and HTML. We'll look at the difference, and which might be preferable.
Depending on what email program you use, putting an image into the body of an email can be easy, difficult, or nearly impossible. Outlook Error 0x800ccc0d is simply a failure to connect - that's in the error message. How to fix Outlook Error 0x800ccc0d involves a little investigation. Compacting should be completely transparent.
It makes files smaller and potentially makes access of email a little faster. There is one dramatic exception. Posted: February 18, 2006 in: Shortlink: TAGS:. I can’t stand the Outlook/Word/Any Microsoft HTML GUI Editor. They’re all the same, whether its Outlook for email, Word for email (even worse), Word for Web Publishing, Front Page or Publisher they all make a huge mess of the code and it usually doesn’t display in a browser the same as it displays in the editor anyway. Even it it does it would only work in Internet Explorer thereby excluding anyone not using Windows, or Windows users who prefer alternative browsers. Interesting note: Ask Leo weekly newsletter is sent out in HTML (albeit very clean & tidy code), rather than plain text.
I’m having trouble with the way Outlook formats my emails. When I type the message body all of the text below the first line is indented. When a new paragraph is started, the same happens, the first line is normal and the rest is indented. I can correct the indentations afterwards by highlighting the text and sliding the tab markers back to the normal position but this is getting tedious.
Also, when someone replies to my emails, their text becomes indented in the same manner. Any suggestions would be most welcome.
One would think that in this day and age that you could type out a message in Outlook or Gmail and have it appear properly when it’s received on the other end. Why should a person have to do a million other actions to get the letter to appear properly on the page, so it doesn’t look slopped up, broken or just plain weird when the receiver gets the letter? Is there anyone that works for Microsoft, or Gmail or Outlook who has the ability to write a program that can make a letter appear half way as decent as the good old tried and true manual typewriter?
I’m sure they could write a few dozen procedures one could use, to try and fix up the sloppy program they wrote but that’s not what I’m looking for. I want to type a letter out in gmail and have it look like the letter I typed out when the receiver gets the letter.
I’m surprised that in the so called information age, this can’t yet be done. Before commenting please:. Read the article.
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