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Outlook.com is free web based email service provided by Microsoft. Not to be confused with the application Outlook which is included with Microsoft Office suites of software.

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How to delete skype chat history stored on hotmail/live/outlook.com?

Please note, I'm not talking about the skype chat history on the skype software, which I can easly delete by going to Tools/Options/Privacy, etc... I'm talking about that all of my chat conversations I do on skype using the normal skype software are…
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Can I close all Outlook.com sessions that I have opened on different computers?

It would seem that I forgot to logout of my Hotmail account (on Outlook.com aka Login.live.com) on a comptuer at school. Someone used this conenction to send unwanted e-mail. Even though I changed the password, this other session still appears…
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How to exclude notifications for all junk email? (Outook 2013)

I've recently switched from GMail to Outlook.com, which fortunately Outlook 2013 supports as backend. I use Exchange ActiveSync. I have Outlook's New Mail Desktop Notifications turned on but since Outlook.com's "Junk E-Mail" Folder seems to be just…
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Outlook 2013 does not sync the drafts folder with my Outlook.com email

I'm using Outlook 2013 and have added my Outlook.com email address via the wizard and chose the Outlook.com option in that wizard. It's a custom domain (i.e. sid@mydomain.com thanks to domains.live.com), but essentially Outlook.com…
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How can I set Chrome to let mailto: links be handled by Outlook.com?

When you go to gmail.com, Chrome asks you to let mailto: links be handled by gmail. On Outlook.com, Microsoft has forgotten to give their users this feature. How to do it yourself? Edit 2021-8-3 This feature is now built into the Outlook.com…
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Is there a way to sync an Outlook calendar with Outlook.com?

I would like to be able to push my work calendar items up to an Outlook.com account. There are several questions (like Sync Google, Outlook Calendar and Contacts) that reference a Google calendar and recommend the use the deprecated Google sync but…
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How to see all flagged emails from all folders in a single place in Outlook.com?

I used to see all my flagged emails (similar to how you can search for started items in Gmail) from all my subfolders at the top of my inbox like this: But, now, that is gone. The only way to see all the flagged items now is to go to each…
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How can I force Thunderbird to reload an IMAP folder structure from Outlook.com

Thunderbird is freshly installed and with an Outlook.com email account using an IMAP connection. New messages can be written, sent and received, all new messages arrive both in Thunderbird client and can be seen in Outlook.com online through a…
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remove skype birthdays from outlook.com calendar

I'm using Outlook.com (live.com) for my e-mail, contacts and calendar. Since Skype was merged into outlook somehow my calendar shows the birthdays of my skype contacts, but I don't want them in my birthday calendar. I tried removing the birthday…
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Should a use utf-8 or "utf-8" as a charset value in an email header?

When sending an email to an Outlook.com with forwarding turned on, I find that the forwarded mail is rejected. On examining the sent mail and the mail sitting in Outlook's inbox. I find that Microsoft have essentially re-written parts of the mail…
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I cannot get thunderbird to connect to Outlook.com

Had to reformat my pc and have been unable to get Thunderbird to connect to my Outlook.com account again. I have no problem connecting to Yahoo. Using Windows 7 and have checked and double checked my in and outgoing server settings and they are…
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Rule that matches all incoming mail on Outlook.com

In the past there was a trick to match all incoming e-mail in Outlook.com (including spam): If sender email contains @ then ... Since they updated their rules to a new system, when I want to edit the above rule I get: We can't edit rules created in…
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Why does PowerAutomate now require me to have my document open?

I use PowerAutomate (Cloud, not Desktop) to read an email in Outlook.com and write a value to an Excel spreadsheet in OneDrive. This setup worked fine for months, but in mid-December, it started failing. Through troubleshooting, I found that it will…
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Outlook.com ICS / iCal url?

How do you overlay a calendar from outlook.com to an office 365 company user calendar? I cannot find a way to generate a link to an ical or ics file from outlook.com/Hotmail.com website. Only think I can find on the outlook.com website on the…
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Migrate custom domain outlook.com account to Office 365 Business

I have a custom domain outlook.com account which was created years ago and now it can't be managed through domains.live.com, lets say it is: user@domain.com I would like to subscribe Office 365 for Business and add my domain into it to manage all my…
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