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Recover Deleted Items in Outlook

I often tell people that deleting email, especially large emails, is the best way to keep their mailbox under its size limit. But occasionally, people (myself included) delete an email or other Outlook item, then realize it was important. If you haven’t emptied your Deleted Items folder yet, then getting the item back is a breeze– just find it in the [...]

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RSS Feeds in Outlook – The Hidden Mailbox Hog

We’ve blogged before (here, here, and here) about what a challenge it can be to keep your mailbox under its size limit. Today we’ll talk about the overlooked folder that can keep a mailbox at the brink of overload – the RSS Feeds folder. The RSS Feeds folder was introduced in Outlook 2007 and is also available in 2010. [...]

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Keeping Track of Where You Save Outlook Attachments

A couple of years ago I wrote a post about attachments hogging mailbox space, causing people to go over their mailbox size limit. The post outlines how you can save an email but delete the file attached to it.  In two seconds a 6 MB email can go down to 12 KB. If you need to [...]

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