Compact Outlook Data Files for a Speed Bump

Continuing with my email theme for this week, I’m back today with a quick tip for Microsoft Outlook. Outlook stores all of your email, contacts, calendar events, and tasks in a Personal Folders file or .pst file and over time it logically grows in size. If you are interested in a slight speed increase, and [...]

Crack.. er Recover Lost Outlook PST Passwords

If you are reading this article you are probably aware that Microsoft Outlook can password protect it’s .PST file or Personal Folders – the file that holds all of your email. In practice, without the password you are not able to open Outlook and read email from the protected PST file. Furthermore, the password is [...]

Intelligently Prune Attachments from Outlook

As storage prices continue to plummet we are still constrained by things as silly as email quotas. It is almost a taboo topic as no one will admit that clinging to such an out-dated ideology is asinine. Most workplaces enforce a quota on your Inbox and consequently, most of us have received the quota warning [...]

Thunderbird POP timeout problem

I came across a problem today with Mozilla Thunderbird (though not necessarily isolated to this client) and the POP mail server. It came about because a user has been out of the office and not pop’ing his mail to the desktop. The server had accumulated 100MB of email over this time.
The problem
Thunderbird has a default [...]

Importing Outlook Calendar to Google Calendar

The moment has finally arrived, Google has released the much rumored Google Calendar today in beta form (go figure!). Here are the steps necessary to migrate from Outlook to Google’s implementation of calendaring.

From Outlook, click File->Import and Export
Select Export to a file
Select Comma Separated Values (DOS). I had to install the appropriate translator here.
Select folder [...]