OS is 10.7.5 with all updates. Office 2011 with all updates up to 14.2.4

My work email is configured on Windows Outlook using cached Exchange mode (which I gather is the default for Mac Outlook, and cannot be disabled) I also have to set, under the "Connection" tab, "Connect to Microsoft Exchange uisng HTTP" and "Use this URL to connect to my proxy server for Exchange". I cannot find the equivalent of that in Mac Outlook. Further, I get zero feedback from Mac Outlook... no errors, no indication that it's even trying to do anything. I got the Progress and Errors windows open, and no matter how I try to configure my account, I don't get any information at all.

What do I need to do to get some kind of response from Outlook to start to figure out how to get my mail working?   
Outlook 2011 for Mac - version 14.2.4 (fully udpated) - on Lion. 
 
When I try to search for an email message using Spotlight, I get "No Results". Have tried the various solutions in this forum, none of which work. Specifically, tried to force a reindex by copying the identity into Spotlight Preferences - Privacy tab, so that I could then remove it. Got the following error message: "The item couldn't be added or removed because of an unknown error."

Not sure if this makes a difference but Outlook is tracking more than 2000 folders across 3 email accounts, and tens of thousands of messages. But my main Inbox is under 100 messages.
How do I fix my send page by email & send link. It is greyed out. I have windows 7 & livemail. I have searched for months trying to fix it. & nothing works to fix it

Help! I need an expert.

How do I fix my send page by email & send link. It is greyed out. I have windows 7 & livemail. I have searched for months trying to fix it & nothing works. It used to work but one day it was no longer highlighted.

 

I can only send mail by using the send with live mail under the page tab.

 

I hate Live Mail.

nan

the tab bar at the top of messenger keeps disappearing.if i press the alt key ,it reappears,but disappears again when i left click on the page.How do i resolve this?
I am trying to set up my accounts in Outlook for Mac but there is no Accounts tab under the tools tab. Any suggestions?

previous versions had that option in the 'privacy' tab in the 'tools' drop menu.
I need to delete some contacts, but they don't pull up when I click under the People tab. When I click "To" in the send field of the email, they DO show up. How can I delete them from my contact list?
Using live mail the choices shown on the Home tab were always visible.  Now I have lost this view where I could click delete, forward, etc.  How do I restore to have the Home tab always showing?

Yes, that's right, I want to turn this OFF or edit it so that read receipts go to the correct email address. I know what you're thinking, that you can't even use read receipts in MS Outlook for Mac. But I have been, although by accident. This is what happened in my case:


Years ago when I had MS Entourage I set it up to ask for a read receipt when I sent emails. I did this by doing the following steps:


1. In Entourage I selected "Tools." and then "Accounts."

2. I selected the "Mail" tab and selected the account I wanted to use read receipts with by double-clicking on the account name.

3. I then selected the "Options" tab.

4. And, in the box labeled "Header," I entered "Disposition-Notification-To" and typed my email address into the "Value" box. 

5. After clicking "OK", Entourage was set up to request read receipts.


When I purchased Office 2011 for Mac, and imported my Entourage accounts etc into Outlook, it also copied this setting for me. This was fine - it just kept requesting read-receipts and that was good.


HOWEVER, the email account I was using is now no longer active and what I'm finding is that whenever I send an email, that the recipients whose computers are actually trying to send a read receipt, are returning them an error message because the email it's trying to send the read receipt to an email address that can't be resolved.


So, how do I now change this in MS Outlook? I need to either remove the "Disposition-Notification-To" setting, or change it so that it goes to my current email address.


Thanks for any help. It will be very much appreciated!


Joe.

why do I have to put my email address in every time to sign in to my emails instead of just putting in my password even when I check the keep me signed in tab