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Archiving your Emails with Outlook and Gmail

April 30th, 2010 Amer Kachmar 1 comment

MailStore helps Outlook Archive Gmail Emails

Users who use Outlook with IMAP to access their Gmail account (whether regular Gmail or Google Apps Gmail) will have problems when they attempt to archive their Emails using Outlook AutoArchive or manually initiating an Outlook archiving process.

There are 2 issues that prevent archiving from being successful with Outlook:

  • Gmail Related Problem: Gmail manages Emails in a different way than what usually Email Servers/Services do.
    • Gmail uses labels instead of folders. Multiple labels can be assigned to the same Email; and when you get a new Email it will automatically have 2 labels: Inbox and “All Mail”.
    • Gmail uses the “All Mail” label as the place where you should be archiving your Emails. This means, you will never have to delete any Email and you will always be able to access old Emails.
  • Outlook Related Problem: Outlook has an odd method for archiving Emails; it makes use of the most recent date of Sent, Received, and Modified dates of an Email. There are various reasons on why the Modified date of an Email would get updated and it is most apparent when you have an IMAP account; as soon as you connect to the IMAP server and have Emails synchronized, the Modified date will be set to the Current date! This makes the archiving process virtually only relying on the Modified date. An attempt to archive Emails using Outlook may result in archiving nothing! More about this is available at the Microsoft article (do NOT follow their lame workaround).

In this tutorial, we will tackle these issues by

  1. Modifying the Gmail Settings to change its behavior with Outlook and IMAP.
  2. Using third-party software, called MailStore, to archive your Emails depending on the Sent and Received dates of your Emails.

(Outlook 2007 is used in this tutorial)

Click here to see how to archive your Emails

Converting Word .docx to .doc using Microsoft FREE programs

December 2nd, 2009 Amer Kachmar No comments

Microsoft Word 2007 logo

Do you have a .docx Word file that you want to convert to .doc Word file but do not have Microsoft Word 2007 or earlier versions? You can convert it using Microsoft free programs, Word Viewer 2003 and Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack. …Click to see how to convert .docx file to .doc

Recovering your AutoCAD dwg file from MUST re_cover! virus attack, an acad.vlx virus variant

November 7th, 2009 Amer Kachmar 28 comments
MUST re_cover! virus

MUST re_cover! virus showing text in AutoCAD drawing

Have you seen MUST re_cover! text showing up when you open your AutoCAD drawing? This is not an error message produced by AutoCAD or Windows, it is a text produced by a variant of acad.vlx virus that appears as a drawing. Trying to recover your file with AutoCAD recover command will not help. Your file might appear as if totally corrupted but it is not. It looks like the virus creators were not that bad when they made it, because they have given you a hint on what to do to recover your file. As you may have already noticed, the hint is MUST re_cover! . ... Click here to see how to recover your AutoCAD dwg drawing

Categories: General Tags: AutoCAD, MUST re_cover!, virus