Recent content by EdSec

You're right (of course) I hadn't ticked a box for the outgoing server authentication but it's all working fine again now with POP3 so why change it! Thanks again for your help.

Dianne, thanks again for your fathomless knowledge of Outlook. It turns out to be a complex topic for a humble home-working mail user. I tried IMAP for the last 24 hours but got a succession of confusing behaviours from Outlook. e.g. “IMAP server closed the connection” Something about...

Thanks Diane, That makes sense. I'd rather not go to Pop3 as I have other devices that need to see my emails as well. So I think I'll just accept that I have 2 pst files from now on. If I'm using IMAP I assume it's less important to have a local copy of all my emails anyway. But I guess the IMAP...

I have just had to re-install Window 7 due to a corruption of some kind that nobody could fix. I preserved my pst file so I can still see my contacts and calendar and get all my future email into the same inbox as my old emails. I have (re)installed Outlook 2010 and "Added" my pst file which I...