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Occasionally a need arises to send email from an email address in which you have been granted send-as permissions. These steps will walk you through sending as a delegated email address in Outlook on a Mac.
Occasionally you may experience a feeling that you have not received any email in a while. One of the first things to check is to see if your email is "Working Offline". This is easy to determine by viewing the lower left hand corner of your active Outlook window.
This Tech Tip describes how to grant rights to view your calendar, either manually (preferred) or through email. Some departments may ask all staff members to assign Free/Busy time, subject, and location level permissions to their All Staff group.
On occasion, you may need to send a secure encrypted email. Doing so will require the recipient to access a website and sign-in with their UC Davis Office 365 account or enter a one-time passcode in order to view the secure email message.
We all need a little help with our computers, printers and phones from time to time. In order to serve you in the best and most efficient fashion, it is very helpful if you include as much information as possible in your initial request. Information the help desk staff needs to help you includes:
When you want to add recipients to an Outlook email message, you can select the To, Cc, and Bcc buttons to choose a recipient from your contacts or manually type the address. If you type the address in the To, Cc, or Bcc boxes, you'll notice that Outlook provides suggestions as you type. These suggestions are stored in the Auto-Complete List.
Email is part of our daily lives and we find ourselves sending and receiving emails constantly. Occasionally, you will need to reply to the sender or send the original message to another person/group. It can sometimes be confusing if you should use 'reply', 'reply all', or 'forward'. Let's break down each one, what it means and how to use them.
Desktop Alerts are notifications that appear on your desktop when you receive a new email message, meeting request, or task request in your inbox. The alerts will pop up on the bottom right-hand corner of your desktop, by the System Tray. By default, Desktop Alerts are turned on. While useful for some, others may find them bothersome or they may interfere with your work. If you'd like to turn your alert notifications on or off, please follow the instructions below.
You may need to update a regular or recurring calendar meeting invite for various reasons. Occasionally folks leave, retire or take a position with another department in the University or new employees arrive. It is important that meetings be updated as staff changes occur. Luckily, this is easy to do and does not require canceling and recreating the meeting.
Occasionally a need arises to send email from a group or alternate email address. These simple instructions will help you configure your Outlook email client to show email as being sent from another address.
Every now and then an Outlook folder will go missing. You know it used to be there, but now it's disappeared. Often, the folder has simply been accidentally moved underneath another Outlook folder without you realizing it, and while you can still find an email through search, you can't figure out where it's hiding. If this has happened to you, here is the way to find your folder.
Do you receive important emails that are sent to your junk email folder? Do you receive a lot of junk email that you'd like to automatically sort into your junk email folder? Good news, you can customize Outlook to handle your junk and non-junk email.
Sympa is a useful tool that any staff or faculty member can use to create and manage their own mailing lists. Because anyone can create Sympa lists, you may not always know whom to contact to be added or removed from a list. For this reason, every Sympa list has a special address that can be used to contact only the list owners.
