Whenever I look at an e-mail in Outlook 2011 for Mac, weather in my inbox, in the message view, or even when composing, Outlook hides the e-mail address and replaces it with the 'real name' field from the e-mail. This is infuriating - I have the same name at home and at work, my Dad has the same name as me, and spammers can put things in the real name field to make them sound like a legit business. How can I disable this behaviour, and get it to display the actual e-mail address first? (if it can display addresses as something like Robert Munro, that would be ideal). I have found a workaround that will indicate which of your email addresses an incoming message was addressed to and, usually, show the actual address in the TO: field. create a new category for each of your email addresses - I called mine gmail address, hotmail address, etc. create a new rule for each of your addresses: I named mine gmail category, hotmail category, etc for each rule, choose 'If any condition is met' When a new message arrives:.
change the default to Any Recipient Contains your email address for that category Do the Following:. I deleted (clicked the - button) the default rule about junk mail.
change the remaining default rule to: Set Category and choose whatever category you created step one above for this email address. In this manner, create one rule for each of your email addresses that categorizes emails to that address to the category you created for that address.
I've been having some issues trying to send emails using outlook for mac 2011 from my own domain. This account configuration works fine on office for windows 2010 with the same ports 110 and 25 but for some reason doesn't work on outlook for mac 2011. All the emails I tried to send got to the outbox folder and don't get sent.
The actual email address to which the message was sent will appear in the TO: field, unless your sender has you under a real name in their contact list. But even in that case, the email will be color coded in your inbox according to the TO: address, and you can choose to group them by category (i.e., TO: address), if you like. I could not get a similar trick to work for the from field.
By default, Outlook 2011 will hide the 'Folders on My Computer.' This article will guide you through re-enabling these folders so that you can store emails locally on your hard drive.
This can be useful if you are approaching your size limit on the Exchange server and need to free up some space without deleting any emails. Outlook Preferences With Outlook 2011 open, click on the Outlook menu at the top of your screen, then choose Preferences. In the window that appears, click on the General icon. Show/Hide Local Folders In the General section of the Outlook preferences, you should see two check boxes, 'Group similar folders.'
And 'Hide On My Computer folders.' The first one groups together folders that exist on the server for your account (Inbox, Sent Items, Deleted Items, etc.) by placing an arrow next to each similar folder allowing you to expand/collapse the similar folders. (To show your total folder size on the server, it will need to be unchecked.) We normally recommend that this option remain unchecked to avoid the confusion of combining folders. The second check box will either 'Hide On My Computer folders' or show them depending on whether or not the box is checked.
Finish When you are done changing the settings, simply click the red 'Close' button in the top-left corner of the Preferences window.