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Thank you for your thoughts on this matter. Are you saying that even though I can see emails back to 10/5./20 that the filter you reference above ("received today....") would (1) allow a months' worth of emails to show instead of just those received today and/or (2) that if the referenced...

Dear Diane, I've Outlook 2019 installed on Win 10. I have a gmail account running w/in Outlook 2019 and configured as imap. At first sync, the 15,000+ emails downloaded to Outlook and the status bar reflected that the inbox was "Filtered" but the summary column only showed emails back to...

Thank you, once again Ms. Poremsky! And, my apologies for my careless mis-spelling of your name in my first email. Currie Carter

Dear Ms Potemsky, Let me say, first, how much I appreciate your knowledge about Outlook and the always generous, compendious answers you share and the speed with which you respond . First Question: I'm using Outlook 2010 and am receiving spam from a number of domains that end in ".rest" such...

Dear Diane, Thanks so much for your speedy and as always helpful response. On one of the two accounts Outlook was set to poll every minute so I changed that to 30 minutes per your suggestion. On the other account, poll times were set at 30 minutes. Interestingly, the first account hasn't...

Dear Diane, I have two instances of Outlook (one instance of Outlook 2016 and a 2nd instance of Outlook 2019) on two separate computers that are in no way connected to each other. Both computers are running Win 10 Pro, Version 1903, OS BUild 18362.418. Both instances of Outlook are using imap...

Diane, Again, thanks so much for your prompt, insightful, and accurate tips. Your suggestion helped me pinpoint/repair the problem. Currie Carter

Diane, I've an instance of Outlook 2013 in which a pop account throws an unknown error (0x80040119). Symptoms are: When in account configuration, the test function sends/receives correctly. In the Outlook page, send/receive throws the unknown error noted above. User is able to log on to the...

I've imported a contacts list from Windows Live Mail into Outlook 2016. The contacts show up in the contacts list but do not show up in the "To:" field of an email message. Is there a way to get the imported contacts into the To: field? Thanks so much for the help.

I've a .pst file that I repaired with scanpst.exe. After the repair, Outlook 2010 throws an error and says that it can't open the .pst file in question. Ran scanpst.exe a 2nd time and repaired the file. Outlook 201o throws the same error. Is there a way to repair the.pst file so that Outlook...

Ms. Poremsky: Again, many thanks for such a speedy and elegant solution. Works like a charm. And, for the rest of your readers I note that once the rule is created you can add additional strings to the same rule. Thus, one rule can handle many spam-heavy domains.

Dear Ms Potemsky, A while ago there was a discussion about blocking top level domains for which there was no entry in Outlook's top-level domain list. As I recall it was done using binary within a registry entry and the actual registry entry was dependent upon which version of Outlook one was...

Dear Ms. Poremsky, Thank you so much for your timely and comprehensive reply. FYI, I got through to the MS Help Desk (their consumer support arm) and spoke with a really knowledgeable tech about this issue. I can say with confidence that the tech who resolved this issue has seen this...

Installed Outlook 2016. Imported contacts from Windows Live Mail by exporting WLM into a .csv file. Imported same into Outlook 2016. Import was successful. However, the contacts do not appear in the Outlook Address book so that when one clicks on the To... button no address appear. I've...