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  • Updating your password in Outlook 2010 tutorial

    It is very simple to update your email collection (POP3) password in Outlook 2010 by following the steps below: Open Outlook Click on the ‘File’ option at the top of the page you’ll now have an option for ‘account settings’ – click here click on the account you’d like to change then select ‘change’ from…

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  • Outlook – certificate security warning

    If Outlook warns that a server certificate cannot be verified, do not solve the warning by turning encryption off or accepting an unknown certificate. The warning deserves investigation. Record the problem Note the exact message, the account affected and whether sending or receiving fails. Do not publish your login details. Check that you are on…

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  • Updating your email password and security settings on Outlook 2007

    Here is a short tutorial on how to update your email password and change the connection to the SSL security type. Note: this tutorial relates to email collection (POP3 or IMAP) not email sending (SMTP) and email collection connection security only. Updating the email collection security type to SSL Step 1 – open Outlook and select…

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  • How to use Gmail as your SMTP server using Outlook

    This tutorial will show you how to use your Gmail SMTP address to send emails from your personal email accounts using Outlook (this example uses Outlook 2007 but still applies in principle to the other versions of Outlook and other local email clients)

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  • Outlook 2007 – adding SMTP authentication

    When using a laptop or mobile device, you’re potentially going to be sending emails over many different internet networks. In order to make sure that only the allowed users are using a particular SMTP to send email, they commonly require a user-name and password to log into the SMTP server every time an email is…

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  • Most common causes for emails not going through

    Are the occasionals emails not going through to the recipient? Here is a list the most common causes: Are your emails simply ending up int he the recipients spam folder? Sounds obvious but this is the final main cause of emails not going through that make up the ‘big 3’. Check there first – it’s…

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  • How to create an outlook email template

    How to create an outlook email template If you use Outlook and often have to write similar emails, Instead of re-writing them every time it might be a better idea to create a template. This is very simple to do and might save you a lot of time! Here’s how to do it: Write your…

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  • Instructions about how to back up and export webmail emails from Horde

    Instructions about how to back up and export webmail emails from Horde If you’re using Horde to manage your webmail emails and want to back them up, you may have realised that it seems to be not as easy to do as you’d hope without going through and forwarding email groups individually Fortunately, it is…

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