Kevin Oppihle's Tech Notes

Depending on your GPO or other settings you may not see all of your email as it is not caching them all locally. When you go office.com online you see all the email in your inbox and sent items. What you can do to get more email cached locally is to change your default account settings by opening Outlook. Select “File” Select ” Account Settings” on the “Email” tab Highlight your Office 365 Exchange account and select “Change” You can then revise the “Offline Settings” Cached offline settings by moving the slider as shown below:

Office 365 while not an expensive email hosting product, its costs can add up quickly as your company expands and/or you add service email accounts. Here is a way to save a few dollars on those special email accounts. External send only email option : (copier) First setup your free external service account email addresses. For example I like to use http://www.gmx.com/ because it is free and you can use it for SMTP relaying. In this example I will setup an email address for my copier to send from: domaincopierservice@gmx.com This will avoid using an office 365 account. I can then setup my copier to relay SMTP directly through GMX as shown below. Note: you may need to open up SMTP from the copier to the outside. Additionally I would recommend you block SMTP from other IP addresses internally to avoid a malware infection that sends SMTP and blacklists your domain and IP. Note: You may also need to whitelist or mark that email address as not junk. You can test the email address by