Archive for December, 2014
Understanding Email versus PIM information
Historically, email accounts dealt with only one type of information – email messages being sent and recieved. At the very core of the process, that is still very much true today for the most part with extensions added to store and retrieve PIM (Personal Information Management) data such as contacts, calendar and tasks. As things […]
How To Move content to an Outlook.com EAS account
Configuring the same email account multiple times in the same Outlook profile using different protocols (i.e. POP3, IMAP, EAS etc) is not something that would be considered but it can be done and in one case in particular provides the solution on how to move data into an Outlook.com EAS account configured in Outlook ‘2013 […]
Understanding Outlook Configuration & Profiles
All versions of Outlook create and utilize an <Outlook Profile> before it can be used. On a new machine (or one that has been reformatted) where Outlook has been installed for the first time, Outlook will require that an Outlook profile be created which for the vast majority of people includes the configuration of at […]
Understanding Email Accounts and Email Clients
The Email Account As described in “Understanding the Email Process“, an email account for the purposes of these series of articles is defined as the server location where your email address resides and email gets delivered or in short, the term “email account” is used synonmously with the term “email address”. However, there is one […]
Understanding Outlook Default Folders versus Default Account
It becomes very important to understand the significance of “Default” email accounts and data files especially when migrating from one version of Outlook to another on a different machine. For a quick video summary of the topic The “default” email account and data file is set via Outlook Account Settings.The first email account configured in […]
