Outlook

A page about Outlook on this wiki? Sounds weird isn't it?
Well, blame my employer.

We migrated from Lotus Notes, with crappy hacked outdated client so Outlook is still better but...
At least under Lotus Notes it was possible to add an IMAP account (BTW Lotus Notes crashed quite often when talking IMAP...)
Here: Tools->Account Settings->This feature has been disabled by your system administrator

References

• Microsoft Office 2007 Resource Kit (official documentation from Microsoft)
  • Documentation page
    • Security for the 2007 Office release
    • Group Policy overview for the 2007 Office release
  • Administrative template (ADM,ADMX,...) files
    • Use 7-zip to decompress this file without installing it. Don't miss the summary excel sheet inside.
• Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003, By Sue Mosher, Robert Sparnaaij, Charlie Pulfer, David Hooker.
  • Excellent book for administering Outlook 2003. Content can be browsed/searched on Google Books.
• Excellent 3rd party page on Outlook policy: http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/policies.htm
• Folder with interesting policy settings on Outlook [1].

Unlocking

Main registry keys

Apparently important registry keys are under:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook

Some tips here (french)

IMAP settings

We can remove the admin barrier on account management:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Setup\ModifyAccounts
=0

Another way without modifying the Registry is to use the import feature:
If e.g. Outlook Express client is also present on the Windows machine

• In Outlook Express:
  • Wizard -> typed my IMAP&SMTP settings
• In Outlook:
  • File -> Import and Export... -> Import Internet Mail Account Settings -> Microsoft Outlook Express or Microsoft Windows Mail -> Wizard allowing to edit the imported settings :-)
  • Then write a new mail -> Account (below Send button) -> select your new account -> Send test mail -> Prompted to choose the sent folder, ok -> you've a multiple tabs config view of your new account, possibility to switch servers to TLS, changing name of the account, saying you need auth to talk to your SMTP etc etc
  • If you need to tune IMAP settings later, go to registry and reset key (000000NN must be replaced with the number of your IMAP profile)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook\9375CFF0413111d3B88A00104B2A6676\000000NN\IMAP Sentitems
= 0

Note that I also tried importing from Eudora Light & Eudora but Outlook didn't see anything

Cached Exchange Mode

The following keys were set in my configuration, preventing to change the settings related to Cached Exchange Mode. In particular the mode selection was disabled, ie. the options Download full items, Download headers and then full items, Download headers were all grayed out.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Cached Mode]
"CachedExchangeMode"=dword:00000001
"Enable"=dword:00000001
"NoDrizzle"=dword:00000001
"NoFullItems"=dword:00000001
"NoHeaders"=dword:00000000
"NoManualOnlineSync"=dword:00000001
"SyncPFFav"=dword:00000001

To unlock all settings, and eg. allow download full headers, simply delete values CachedExchangeMode, NoDrizzle, NoFullItems, NoHeaders, and NoManualOnlineSync (ie. all but Enable and SyncPFFav).

Changing JunkMail levels

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Options\Mail\JunkMailProtection
No Protection = 0xffffffff = 4294967295
Low = 6
High = 3
Trusted Lists Only = 0x80000000 = 2147483648

To enable the JunkMail otions in the Options->Preferences->E-Mail->Junk E-mail menu

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\DisableAntiSpam
=0

All in one registry file

You can also put all the above registry modifications in one single file [{{#file:Outlook.reg}} Outlook.reg]

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook]
"DisableAntiSpam"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Cached Mode]
"NoFullItems"=-
"NoDrizzle"=-
"NoHeaders"=-
"CachedExchangeMode"=-
"NoManualOnlineSync"=-

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Options\Mail]
"JunkMailProtection"=-

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Setup]
"ModifyAccounts"=dword:00000000

...and modify the registry at each startup with the following command:

regedit /s Outlook.reg

Note: the hyphen after the registry value indicates a request to delete the value. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310516 for details.

Group Policy and other configuration

• Configure Outlook security and protection features
• Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

To use the Group Policy you may need to install the Outlook Group Policy template [{{#file:Outlk12.adm}} Outlk12.adm]

tbd

Moving PST location

cf this post

1. Close Outlook.
2. Open Control Panel -> Choose Mails -> Click on Data files.
3. Select the Account name and check for the location of the PST file. Leave the window open.
4. Open the folder containing the PST. Move the PST to the desired location.
5. Do NOT rename the file - if you do Outlook creates a new file in the default location again.
6. Switch to the Data Files window (as opened in Step 2) and double click on the PST file location.
7. This displays an error window, Ignore the error, and point to the new location. Close the windows.
8. Restart Outlook.
9. Outlook may create a new PST in the default location again, delete it, in such a case.

Interoperability between Exchange/Outlook & Linux

PST to Maildir

• In Outlook:
  • New -> Outlook Data File... -> Outlook 97-2002 Personal Folders file
  • Copy/Move mails to it
  • Right-Click on it -> Close it (probably safer)
• In Linux:
  • Convert to mbox using readpst, then to Maildir using mb2md

mkdir pst
readpst -r -o pst backup.pst
find pst -name mbox -size 0 -exec rm {} \;
find pst -mindepth 2 -type d -print0|xargs --null -I XXX mb2md -s "$(pwd)/XXX/mbox" -
find pst -mindepth 2 -name mbox -print0|xargs --null rm

I tried the PST Import plugin v1.2 for Thunderbird but it failed finding any mail in the PST

Openchange

I tried the one from Debian Experimental (version 1.0~svn679-1)

mapiprofile --address=A.B.C.D --username=name --password=passwd --domain=DOM --workstation=BLABLA --profile=test --create

-> segfault from libmapi0

I tried to compile the libmapi0 from the SVN, no segfault anymore but still failed

Evolution

Apparently ther is an attempt to support MAPI in a development branch but it has too much recent dependencies for me to compile it...

svn checkout http://svn.gnome.org/svn/evolution/branches/EXCHANGE_MAPI_BRANCH

svn diff http://svn.gnome.org/svn/evolution/trunk http://svn.gnome.org/svn/evolution/branches/EXCHANGE_MAPI_BRANCH