Some of the RECIPIENTS of my brand new OfficeMac Outlook 2011 are sending my emails back with a message that says: "This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible."  Yikes!  I've had Outlook 2010 on my PC for eons but have never heard of this problem... Helllllllpppppp!  (thanks :) 

Hi, I am using outlook 2011 for Mac and I have a significant issue that I can't seem to find a solution for.

I accidentally moved, rater than copied, a bunch of emails so that they could be backed up. I did not move the database file just the messages (messages/OT/OB/OM). When I realized the problem I moved the file back in but it did not recognize them.

When I did a restore I was able to recover many older emails from 2011 and 2012 and a very small number from 2013 (only sent items for some reason). However I am unable to access most of the emails in the folder. I used the Microsoft database utility several times and always had the same result.

Bottom line is I have all the files and I can even read the subject lines in finder but I am unable to open these emails. What can I do to make outlook read these emails? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Is there a way to make the contacts show when I click on Contacts in the Outlook pane?

This started with one email message stuck in my outbox.  Outlook continues to try to send it, but it won't go.  I have tried deleting it and dragging it into drafts to no avail.  If this is relevant, outbox only shows up in my list of folders briefly, not as a standard folder.  So I have a short window when the folder appears to highlight the email and attempt a delete or move.  Other emails continue to send just fine.  I also tried to copy the body of the email and paste it into a new email and sent it, but now it's also stuck in the outbox.  Any ideas?

Hi I am having terrible problems with outlook and coloured categories. I have been using outlook from the office mac 2011 home and business addition on my iMac and make extensive use of the colour categories for my work calendar.  I also access my calendar on my iPad and iPhone and this is where it just doesn't seem to be compatible.  initially the calendar kept getting corrupted and duplicated and after much web trawling I found help and have now urned off the apple i-cal syncing and do not use it at all.   

In trying to find a solution i have taken out a Microsoft exchange account with a new email and this works great on the iMac but on the iPhone and iPad i only get the light version when I log on regardless of which browser i Use.   I see all the emails and calendar entries but it's only a lite version and no access to categories etc. 

So I signed up for the Microsoft 360 home 30 day trial being told that the Outlook web app would solve the problem but i still don't get any coloured category information just lists of entries. all the entries are there but no colour coding. 

Also when i downloaded the 360 version of outlook all the categories changed colours! and still only show up on the iMac.  

No one wants to take responsibility or provide an answer. Apple care say that they cannot support Microsoft products such as outlook and tell me to ring Microsoft.

Microsoft tell me they cannot support apple or outlook or office 360 because I am using a Microsoft exchange account. 

My Microsoft exchange account provider 1 and 1 tell me it is a Microsoft/Apple issue!!!   My email, syncing etc all work fine its just the format it gets displayed in.

The only solution I can see is if I buy a macbook as then I will be able to install the full version of outlook. it seems a bit extreme and an expensive option.

Any help greatly appreciated.  Im losing the will to live. 

Just added an IMAP email account, and suddenly all the colours of categories in my email folders have gone wrong, and will not allow me to reapply the correct colour catgory.  Then I realised Outlook has created a new sub-inbox within my 'Inbox' for the new email account, and a second one called 'On my computer'.  It's the Category colours in the original 'Inbox' that are wrong, in the sub-inboxes they are still correct.  I wonder why Outlook has done this.  Is it possible to combine the two sub-inboxes back to just one Inbox so I don't have to keep checking two?

Since starting in a new office.  I have started getting this error message: 

Mail could not be received at this time. The server for account "Gmail" returned the error "[ALERT] Too many simultaneous connections (Failure)." Your username/password or security settings may be incorrect. Would you like to try re-entering your password

Re-entering the password does nothing to stop this.

I have read many forums & there seems to be no solution.  This message comes up every 10 seconds and makes using Outlook impossible.  I am currently typing my emails in word then cutting and pasting into outlook and sending in between each 10 second.

I have Office for Mac 2011.  It has all the latest up dates. I am using IMAP accounts.

I have tried changing my gmail settings

Removing my keychains

Creating new identities

changing my schedules so it isn;t "send and receive all"

I do not have gmail on my phone but I do access it from home

Can anyone helps resolve this?

If we enable sharing calendars (set the Calendar permissions to have other people as Reviewers) we then see each of those people now having the ability to send email as the sharer (eg. if I share my Calendar with Joe, Joe can now send email as me). Looking in the Delegates permissions I see no option to disable that, and they have no access to the inbox. This seems like a major issue, as simply allowing someone to see my calendar seems to allow them to impersonate me.