Question about Outlook Express

I use Office for Mac 2011 linked to 365 and synced to an iMac and MacBook Air.  

I use this daily and often and have many contacts all assigned across something like 15 different categories - all colour coded.  

My contacts file is not affected by this issue.  

But my inbox used to pick up the categories.  However, in the last 3-4 weeks, the inbox now randomly drops the category and colour code.  

Currently I have two emails from one person - one is coded/categorised, the other is just black text.  

Often when I open up the inbox at start up, I can see the items all coloured and then watch as most of them de-categorise.  

Any help would be much appreciated.

I am no techie but would probably call myself a gifted amateur - usually can get my way around but do not understand highly technical stuff.  

Thank you

I use Office for Mac 2011 linked to 365 and synced to an iMac and MacBook Air.  

I use this daily and often and have many contacts all assigned across something like 15 different categories - all colour coded.  

My contacts file is not affected by this issue.  

But my inbox used to pick up the categories.  However, in the last 3-4 weeks, the inbox now randomly drops the category and colour code.  

Currently I have two emails from one person - one is coded/categorised, the other is just black text.  

Often when I open up the inbox at start up, I can see the items all coloured and then watch as most of them de-categorise.  

Any help would be much appreciated.

I am no techie but would probably call myself a gifted amateur - usually can get my way around but do not understand highly technical stuff.  

Thank you

I recently decided to shift from Apple Mail to Outlook 2011 because i was not very fond of the preferences used by Apple Mail.

However, it was later on that i realized the migration process from Apple Mail to Outlook 2011 wasn't as easy as i thought i would be.

Now i urgently need to get my important emails transferred, how do i go about it.

Any help will be appreciated.

Hi group, had a major problem with outlook 2011 on my mac osx 10.9.5, had all the normal issues most people write about, rebuild database errors then no searching at all.

Tried:

1. indexing many times, including many terminal commands.

2. I had wiped the disc about 6 weeks ago and reinstalled every app one by one

3. uninstalled and reinstalled office and all updates

4. fixed permissions via command R disk utilities--- back to this later...

Nothing worked

I tried my backup drive and it worked I then brought all the data from outlook into the backup drive and it still worked. but had rebuild errors  on scrolling.

What I think started to work...

On the backup drive I rebuilt the database again and for the first time I was able to scroll without crashing

I then thought about permissions again and ran a command R disc utility because i was also having a thunderbolt firewire 800 adapter problem.

This time I saw my startup drive and ran the permissions and disk repair  on both the volume and the disc - not sure if this is the correct terminology but once I did that, and restarted and the computer started to index the drive again, my emails started to search and I could scroll through all without a crash.

I think I had some permission error on a few emails with attachments at least that's what i think and repairing them on the backup drive that had the correct permissions and then doing the repair permissions from the command R on both the partition and the drive reset everything to admn level. I'm not an IT guy but a freelance photographer so I'm not sure but I"ve spent a good week on this fix and I'm happy I did it. when I did the reinstall two nights ago i thought that and reinstall of the office would do it.

This permissions thing was big and another person thought there was something to permissions so I'm glad I went the extra mile...

give it a shot... davidfukumoto.com if you need photographer or video guy....

Hello,

I have an IMAP account for my Outlook 2011 for Mac identity.  We recently switched over our email accounts to Gmail (Google's server) and tried to link Outlook witht he new Gmail addresses.  However, we receive duplicate emails each time a message is received in the Inbox.  And each time we send a message, duplicate emails are in the Send box, although the Recipient is not receiving duplicates on their end.

I tried deleting any Duplicate Accounts in Outlook and resolving any conflicts in the Rules and Send/Receive Schedule, but I am still facing the same problem.  i tried rebuilding the Database, but am still having the problem as well.

Thanks.

I have been having a very odd problem within Outlook for Mac 2011 for awhile.

I subscribe to multiple LinkedIn Groups and get daily email digests sent to me in batches throughout the day. For each batch of emails, the sender (i.e., Group Name) always ends up the same, regardless of the actual Group it came from and the body of the email showing the correct content from each Group. Somehow one of the Groups that is included in each batch is randomly applied to all Senders/Froms for each email in the batch.

I thought this was limited only to the LinkedIN Groups, but yesterday I received a few private messages as well (for my birthday) a very short time apart, and they all showed up the same from one of the several senders. That has never happened when I only receive a single periodic private LinkedIN message. So, it must be the multiple messages arriving relatively concurrently making the Sender name confused.

I contacted LinkedIn, and their troubleshooting led nowhere and they absolved themselves of responsibility.

I have used Spotlight to see if somehow the LinkedIn Group names are stored somewhere on my Mac, but I can find no trace of them except in previous daily digest emails.

Does anyone have an idea of what might be happening and how to fix it?

Thanks,

Steve

Split from this thread.

Strangely enough, I've been having the opposite issue for a few days : Outlook has stopped deleting invitations after I responded. 

Has MS changed this in a recent update ? Otherwise what could explain this new behavior of Outlook 2011, and do I have a possibility to revert to the previous setting (automatically delete after responding) ?

It looks like my company server, which I believe is Exchange / Office 365, is stripping HTML in signatures when sent by any Mac client, including Outlook 2011 for Mac. All HTML is removed and links are simply exposed bare.

For example, "<a href="http://microsoft.com">My link</a>" will become "My link<http://microsoft.com>". All <img> tags are removed, all <table> tags etc.

I reproduced this with both Outlook 2011 for Mac and Apple Mail 8.1 (OS X 10.10.1 "Yosemite"). This does not happen when using Outlook for Windows. In both cases, I connect to the server through Exchange Web Services.

Has anyone else seen this? I suspect it might be a server-side "security feature" triggered by all non-Windows clients, but it's really annoying and surely there is an option to stop it from happening...?