How Do You Troubleshoot Email Problems In Outlook With Transaction Logging?
Usually, sending and receiving mail works smoothly in Outlook. But as soon as you have become a bit too accustomed to this error-free email existence, a puzzling and ill-explained error pops up. If the unexplained error does not go away, only a log can help. Outlook can create a detailed list of what it is doing, sending and receiving as it tries to exchange mail. Using this log, you can either pinpoint the problem yourself or at least show it to your ISP’s mail support person, for example. Outlook can log all communication with Exchange, POP, SMTP and IMAP servers as well as Hotmail communication. Troubleshoot Email Problems in Outlook with Transaction Logging To log email traffic for troubleshooting in Outlook: • Select Tools | Options… from the menu in Outlook. • Go to the Other tab. • Click Advanced Options. • Make sure Enable logging (troubleshooting) (or Enable mail logging (troubleshooting) in Outlook 2003) is enabled. • Click O
