I finally got to Inbox Zero in my personal email inbox. I migrated all my personal email accounts over to gmail and went from there. Took me a few hours but feels good. Ended up using labels for Family, Friends, Purchases, Registrations, Finances, etc.
I’m going to attempt to do the same thing in Outlook for my work email. The only issue being that there’s 33,877 emails there, so I’m guessing it’ll take me a while, even with Outlook sort & search.
(note, this is an old post that I copied over from my old blog. It was helping people out, so I moved it over).
“The messaging interface has returned an unknown error. It the problem persists, restart Outlook.”
would show up when sending email. After the upgrade, it happened all the time. (I should probably preface all this with the fact that it wasn’t *my* machine and I was troubleshooting it using Fog Creek’s Co-Pilot service). The user could not send email. Every time when clicking “Send” that message would show up. Even after restarting Outlook. Went through all the typical troubleshooting steps:
-Reboot (duh)
-Disable Add-ins (Linkedin, Google Desktop Search, Norton, etc)
-Created new mail profile & new .pst
-Disabled desktop firewall
-Disabled anti-spam software
-Paused Google Index
-Switched to use SMTP on port 25 instead of SMTP over SSL
-Archived old data
None of it worked. Google or Microsoft support wasn’t much help, simply because the error message is too general and applies to many different problems.
The solution?
-Empty the Deleted Items Folder
I kid you not.
3-4 hours of troubleshooting and searching for answers and that was it. There must have been a corrupted file in there or something.
I hope someone finds this post and that it saves them the time.
I need a beer.
