The Junk button in Outlook allows you to move a spam message to the Junk E-mail folder but this also adds the sender to the Blocked Senders list.

To prevent cluttering the Blocked Senders list with fake addresses or addresses which are only used once, I’d like to move the message to the Junk E-mail folder without adding the address to the Blocked Senders list.

I don’t really like using drag & drop to move the message, because I have quite a large folder list (which often requires scrolling) and a bit of an unsteady hand.

Is there any way to add this pure “Junk” command to Outlook?

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To easily sort out my newsletters from my actual emails, I’ve created an alias for my Outlook.com which is myname-newsletters@outlook.com.

Unfortunately, every now and then I tend to get a lot of spam on this address even though I don’t use it for emailing myself. I can only assume that one of the newsletters I signed up with is selling addresses.

I thought about creating an alias for each newsletter I sign up with but this process is rather cumbersome and the amount of aliases I can create on Outlook.com is limited.

Is there another way to approach this?

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Upon opening attachments, they get opened in a Protected View which prevents me from editing the file unless I first press on the "Enable Editing" button.

As I'm always very careful about which attachments I open and often need to edit and return attachments, I find this additional step a bit annoying.

Is there a way to "unblock" these attachments by default?

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We’re using an application which can send notification messages to our customers. It does this via Outlook but for each email that we send out we get the warning below:

A program is trying to send an email message on your behalf. If this is unexpected, click Deny and verify your antivirus software is up-to-date.

We then have to wait a few seconds before a progress bar is to 100% before we can click on Allow.

Needless to say, this is very annoying and quite a time suck as it does this for every email.

Is there a way to suppress these security alerts even if it is just for this application?

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I’m using both the Facebook and LinkedIn Social Connector Provider in Outlook. Currently, when the contact both exists in Facebook and LinkedIn, it shows the Facebook picture.

However, since people tend to use more professional portrait photos on LinkedIn, I’d prefer to get the Linked picture instead.

Is there any way to change this?

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I prefer to read emails by opening them in their own window rather than using the Reading Pane.

Whenever I press Reply, Outlook opens a new message window but the original message is still left open as well and needs to be closed manually after I sent my reply.

As I often switch between applications while writing a message, this opened message gets “hidden” behind other windows and I end up with many opened message windows by the end of the day.

Is there a way to automatically close these windows when I reply?

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When clicking on the Automatic Replies (Out of Office) button, I get the following error:

Your automatic reply settings cannot be displayed, because the server is currently unavailable. Try again later.

I’m pretty sure that the server is available since I can still send and receive emails.

How do I correct this error so I can turn the OOF on and off again via Outlook?

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I’ve accidentally deleted a message which I liked to keep and since I have Outlook set to empty delete the Deleted Items folder upon closing Outlook, I can’t restore it from there anymore either.

I do make frequent backups of my pst-file, however, I do not want to lose any of my new emails which I’ve received or sent since creating that backup.

Is there any way to recover just that single message or the folder containing the message from my backup?

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For some of my new emails, I receive multiple new email alerts. These alerts come at the same time or within seconds from each other.

When I check in Outlook, I can see that I only received the message once. I also have no rules configured in Outlook to display a New Mail Alert for certain messages.

How can I get rid of these double alerts?

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Upon checking my Deleted Items folder, I came across some emails which should not have been deleted.

I’m now trying to find out how this happened and knowing when it got deleted would be a huge help.

Is there any way to determine when a message got deleted?

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