What to Do If Mailto Links Cannot Open Outlook?

Someone complains that when he clicks on a mailto link, a related mail webpage opens instead of the expected Outlook app. This article will focus on this issue and provide some effective measures. Generally speaking, as long as you’ve configured Mailto protocol in Windows to use MS Outlook as default, clicking on a mailto link will definitely open Outlook. If not, there are great chances that you’re using third party Internet Browse rather than the default Internet Explorer, such as Firefox...

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2 Steps to Auto Mark Junk Emails as Read in Outlook

Outlook will show either the number of unread items or the total number of items in “Junk Email” folder.  If you wouldn’t like to see the alert of number and even hope to ignore the junks, why not let Outlook auto mark junk emails as read? This article will offer you a quick method. Outlook permits us to choose to show either the number of unread items or total number of items for all the mail folders. I prefer to get reminders for the number of unread items. So I’ve set all the mail folders...

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2 Steps to Disable “Important” Folder for Gmail Account in Outlook

After connecting a Gmail account to Outlook via IMAP, you will see a default folder named as “Important”. In this article, we will explore how to disable this folder. The “Important” folder will be automatically added to Outlook when you connect to the Gmail account via IMAP. This feature is called as “Important Markers” in Gmail. In general, it will gather the specific emails depending on Gmail’s adaptive understanding of your priorities and interests. Thus, you will often discover that...

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