Tag: outlook.com
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Fixed: Cannot change change name on an Outlook.com email account
Outlook.com is an good email and calendar service that is provided free of charge by Microsoft. It is not part of the Office 365 suite but does use Exchange as the back-end. When I send an email using Outlook.com the recipient gets an email that says From: James Bayley <outlook-email-address@outlook.com> where “James Bayley” is my…
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IMAP is dead – how to use it with Outlook.com
I have just spent 4 hours trying to connect a user’s mobile phone to Outlook.com using IMAP. The first thing I should say is that this is the wrong solution. The only sensible client tool for Office 365 including Outlook.com is Outlook mobile. Outlook 2016 desktop does work but has issues with aliases. However this…
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A workaround for Outlook.com not supporting attachments in appointments
Outlook.com is a free email and calendar server provided by Microsoft. It supports Exchange ActiveSync (commonly known as EAS) is a communications protocol designed for the synchronization of email, contacts, calendar, tasks, and notes from a messaging server to a smartphone or other mobile devices. EAS support is good because in practice it means that…
Dr James Bayley 