Question about Outlook Express

I keep getting errors like this:

Outlook cannot find the server. Verify the server information is entered correctly in the Account Settings, and that your DNS settings in the Network pane of System Preferences are correct. Error code: -3176

I have the latest Outlook 2011, latest Yosemite Macos, and 4 different accounts of which one is Office365 Exchange and the others are IMAP, including Outlook.com, gmail, iCloud and a private IMAP server.  All of them give me this error from time to time. The bizarre part is that once I clear the message, all of the accounts send and receive mail just fine. Its not like Outlook is not actually able to connect to my accounts; its just that if gives me a series of apparently bogus error messages that I have to constantly clear, including ones that take screen focus away from what I'm doing.

Has anyone seen this, and does anyone have any idea of what to do about it? I'll point out that this problem persists across multiple installs of Outlook on a couple of Macs and Macos versions, so I'm certain its not my Outlook settings. Clearing and reinstalling Outlook does not fix the problem in any way.

Thanks!

I have seen a few people with this problem.  The one answer that people marked as "worked" was to copy and paste your signature to textedit and then back to the email reply.  That doesn't seem like a fix to me.  Especially for us that send 20-30 emails an hour.

My problem is that when I send an email and get a reply to that email, when I go to reply, my signature font changes.  It also makes the font bold and it looks strange.  It only happens on every 2-3 emails which makes it even stranger.  I've updated to the latest version and installed all patches.  I've ticked the box to maintain formatting and have tried without that option as well.  I've tried every fix on every forum for the last 3 months and nothing has worked.  Out of frustration I deleted the IMAP account and re-added it.  Waited 36 hours for it to download all my mail and the problem persisted.

PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!

We use a Public Folder for our office so people can advertise local events and similar information and have a mixed office (OSX & Windows 7)

I found out how to subscribe to the folder in Outlook 2011, however I can't figure out how to post to the group. In the Windows version of Outlook, the New Email button turns into a New Post button when the Public folder is open, the same does not happen on the Mac, and I cannot find anyplace where it has the option to post.

Any ideas?

Recently,I discovered that emails from one person were not arriving in the Inbox, but they were on the server of my ISP. Outlook was apparently blocking this person's emails, whether sent from their office address, their home gmail account or from their mobile phone. No other emails have been blocked from any sender.

The emails were not going to Junk Mail. A check of Tools>Junk Email Protection>Blocked senders showed that none of the sender's addresses were listed; The sender's domains were not listed in Safe Domains either.

More than an hour's investigation by the ISP's support team could not find any reason why emails from this one address received in the Webmail box of the ISP should not be automatically downloaded by Outlook with other mail.  The sender had the office IT expert check for any spurious artifacts on the emails which would have made Outlook reject them, but there was nothing.

Emails sent from my Outlook to that person - at office or home are delivered correctly, but replies get only as far as the ISP server. Outlook is functioning correctly otherwise, but this seems to have started from the time of Office 2011 security updates in 2014. Is there a secret flag to block these emails I am missing?

MS Office 2011 for Macs user on MacBook Pro using MacOS 10.8.5

Recently, a user in our area had their Exchange password expire. After changing the password and using it for a week, Outlook began to rebuff all attempts at retrieving mail with the following error message:

"Mail could not be received at this time. The server account for "company" returned the error "Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password." Your username/password or security settings may be incorrect. Would you like to try reentering your password?"

If, like us, you went through following steps:

1. Re-enter the password, making sure the caps lock is off and you are entering it correctly

2. Make sure your password is good by using it to access other Exhange server areas. (Such as successful direct access to a volume or successfully logging into Outlook Web App. IOW, webmail.)

3. Reconfirm your account settings.

4. Have your IT specialist reset your password.

5. Delete or repair keychains that pertain to the Exchange server.

6. Refresh the cache in your browsers that may be storing passwords that are conflicting with the Exchange server. "Just in case."

7. Deleted and re-established the balky account in Outlook.

...and you are still being rebuffed over and over by Outlook, you might try:

8. Rebuilding your database using the Microsoft Database Utility found in the MS Office 2011 applications folder.

9. Upgrading Outlook using the Check for Updates feature under Help in Outlook's menu bar.

After Solution 8 and/or 9: quit Outlook; shutdown; restart; launch Outlook; and try to log in with your good password. (And personally, in situations like these, I like turning off all launch-at-login items so that an application we're trying to repair has every chance to launch and perform without any kind of user-prompted machine interference.)

We had the user in our case upgrade their Outlook in a last-ditch attempt before doing an uninstall/reinstall. Rebuilding the database occurred to us, but we decided against it since it never prompted us to do that—if that was really the problem. During the upgrade process, we were prompted to rebuild the database. Rebuilding the database during an upgrade has never happened before that I can recall. Usually, Outlook will prompt you on its own to re-build a bad database, though there is a utility in the MS Office 2011 applications folder that you can use to do that whenever you like.

After our upgrade/database rebuild, Outlook began to repopulate the account with all the stored e-mail and updating with new messages. So…problem solved!

FYI to anyone with similar problems. The mods can keep, amend, or delete this post however they see fit!

Thanks for reading, I hope one of these options works for you!

For work I have a desktop Mac, laptop, iPad, and iPhone.  I've found that Meetings invitations sent from people outside our company ONLY show up on the device on which I accept the invite and never sync across to the other devices.  If the invite is sent my someone inside of our company, then as expected, the meeting will show up on all of my devices once accepted.

This has made the calendar almost unusable.  If I work at my desktop Mac during the day and accept several meetings for an upcoming trade show.  When I head to the trade show with my laptop, iPad, and iPhone none of those meetings show up on the other devices.  I'm having to manually re-enter all meetings and associated info in my laptop before going anywhere.  Once entered manually - it then syncs across all 4 of my devices just fine.

Again, this only seems to happen when someone outside our company send me a meeting invite from their Outlook.

Any clues on where I could even begin tracking something like this down?  I've already removed my account from inside Outlook on both my laptop and desktop systems and re-added it.  

I am on Outlook for Mac 2011 Version 14.4.8 across both computers.  My iPad and iPhone on the latest iOS 8 point update.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Sincerely,

Don Hertz

I get many payment confirmation emails from paypal.  

In the actual header

From: So and So via Paypal

reply-to: *** Email address is removed for privacy ***

Outlook client correctly labels the first one as

From: So and So via Paypal

but the next half a dozen that came in about the same time are ALSO labelled identically as 

From: So and So via Paypal

when their email headers are in fact 

From: Somebody Else via Paypal

reply-to: *** Email address is removed for privacy ***

( etc, etc) 

?????!?!!???

Why is Outlook Mislabeling these in batches??

Paypal suggested that somehow these people are getting into my Address book mislabeled - but I cannot find any of them in my address book.

This only started a couple of weeks ago... and strangely the problem is identical on Mac and on Windows

I have been using Outlook 2011 for Mac for several years to pull in feeds from my personal Yahoo account. Today, I added 3 different Exchange accounts for my business so I could have all emails in one place. When I launch Outlook, my Yahoo account and 3 Exchange emails appear as folders under the "Inbox". BUT, when I hit the "Send/Receive" button, the only account that is shown in the Yahoo email account. I cannot see the exchange folders. 

Now, if instead of hitting the "Send/Receive" button, I open the drop down on the button and click on each individual Exchange account, then they stay visible!! 

I'm using a Mac with OS X 10.10.1 so I'm guessing there's some type of development bug that's not been addressed yet, but I'm really, really frustrated that I cannot see all the folders in my "Inbox".

Can anyone help me on this? Much appreciated............

Hi, I exported an entire Outlook Identity (using 14.4.7) to an .olm file recently, and noticed that older Calendar items lost their formatting - the body of the calendar events lost all line breaks.  So instead of having it look correct like this:

Line 1

Line 2

Line 3

It imported like this:

Line 1 Line 2 Line 3

So I went back to the old Identity to see if the problem existed there or not, and all the calendar items look fine in that Identity - no formatting problems. I also checked an older backup of that one and it was also fine.  So I tried exporting again but this time only the Calendar items.  I then loaded the new Identity, re-imported, and the same problem occurred.  Again, only with older items, but these aren't just old appointments that i can delete. They are informational entries with a lot of text in the body of the event's window pane that i need to reference quite often.

Is there anything else i can do? There's too many over the course of years to copy/paste the text from each one.

I'd like to note that i have seen the same type of problem happen in older versions of Outlook where once in a while I would save an email message draft, close it, and when i'd re-open it later all the formatting would be stripped.  Seems like a bug.

thanks