Sunday, March 30, 2014

Outlook Not Downloading The Message Content

Microsoft Outlook 2007 is an email client developed by Microsoft. As an emailing, calendar and task-organizing program, it is included in some versions of Microsoft Office. It is also being sold individually.

Microsoft Outlook helps in managing email, calendars, contacts and tasks from a single interface. Created for productivity, convenience and flexibility, Outlook can be used through your computer’s desktop even though it needs an uninterrupted internet service for Internet server information to work effectively. What this application is most useful for is checking multiple e-mail accounts over the Internet for which it can be highly convenient. All you have to do is log into each account and keep track of the messages sent and received, thus making Microsoft Outlook extremely useful for those users having multiple email accounts.

Outlook 2007 lets you check messages from multiple accounts, but the program itself may fail to download entire messages in your IMAP accounts. But, in case of POP3 accounts do not have the same issue, as they are configured to automatically download the entire message content, including any attachments. Problems like this one can be resolved for IMAP accounts by making changes in Outlook’s application settings. Here are the instructions that will help you resolve Outlook problems concerning IMAP accounts.

Instructions
  • Initially you need to open Outlook by clicking on Start and then All Programs and selecting Outlook. You may also find it as a desktop icon. Then all you have to do is click on the desktop icon to launch Outlook
  • After that, you can click on Tools and Send/Receive and then select Define Send/Receive Groups under Send/Receive Settings.
  • Then, you need to click on Accounts and then select your email account
  • Subsequently, you can click each folder for which you want to download complete messages, such as your Inbox. You can then select Download complete item including attachments. Click on the OK button.
This should do the trick. The above-mentioned steps should resolve the Outlook problems or problem in which Outlook 2007 is not downloading Message content. If problem persists or if you have any other Outlook related problem then you can explore Outlook help articles mentioned in official Microsoft Website. You could also find many useful information regarding Outlook 2007 or other versions of Outlook in the website.

There are also many third party web-sites that provide technical support through articles. Moreover, Outlook 2007 or Outlook itself has many help articles in-built or in the software itself that you can refer to.

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