Keychain will work well for a Mail password recovery. Simply use spotlight and type in keychain then press return (spotlight is located in the upper right corner of the screen and looks like a magnifying glass). Find the name of the mail account and double click or tap on the appropriate entry. The very bottom of the entry will have a box that reads 'show password', click on that box.

Configuring Outlook 2011 for iMac with att.net I'm running Apple OS X v10.8.2 (12C60) aka, Mountain Lion, and MS Office for Mac 2011, v14.2.5 (121010). Visual studio community mac. I have followed the advice and settings from another thread (same subject) and worked with the att 24/7 esupport help team and I'm dead in the water (sts). Outlook for Mac can automatically set up accounts from many popular email service providers such as Outlook.com (previously known as Hotmail) On the Enter your Exchange account information page, type your email address. Best download manager for mac. Under Authentication, make sure User Name and Password is selected.

You will then have to authenticate using the computer account credentials (the user name and password you use to log in to that account on the computer). Once authenticated the computer will show you the password needed. Keychain will work well for a Mail password recovery. Simply use spotlight and type in keychain then press return (spotlight is located in the upper right corner of the screen and looks like a magnifying glass).

Find the name of the mail account and double click or tap on the appropriate entry. The very bottom of the entry will have a box that reads 'show password', click on that box. You will then have to authenticate using the computer account credentials (the user name and password you use to log in to that account on the computer). Once authenticated the computer will show you the password needed. I don't understand how to authenticate after i've checed the 'show password' box. How do I do that, please. Thanks ernieandbert.

Hi, moved my entire '~/Documents/Microsoft User Data' directory which contains the entire office 2011 configuration to '/Volumes/MYDATA/Microsoft User Data' place and made an alias to it back in Documents. Everything works fine except for the fact that my search in outlook does not work. No emails no matter what I search for gets matched, it always says no results.

And I know something is wrong because I tried the same search before the move and it works fine. I did several tests and I realised the problem is not the fact that I moved the directory and made an alias as it works fine if the alias links to somewhere else on the C Drive but if I make an alias to a mounted /Volume then I get this behavior where my search in outlook does not work. Does anyone know more detail about how outlook works and how I can fix this? I used the same method in Entourage before, and it worked just fine. Click to expand.Search in Outlook Mac uses Spotlight index files. If you are on Lion skip down to reset permissions steps.

HOW TO RE-INDEX From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences. * Click Spotlight.

* Make sure Mail Messages is checked under the Search Results tab. * Click the Privacy tab. * Drag your hard drive to the list. * Remove the drive you just added. * Spotlight will re-index the contents of the item you initially dragged to the list. Depending on your Mac and the contents of its hard disk, re-indexing may take several hours to days. Until this process is finished, Spotlight won’t know the contents of your disks and neither will Outlook.

All lists like contacts, events, notes etc. Are generated by the Spotlight searches. If you are on Lion, reset permissions using these steps. When you use the Disk Utility app and Repair Permissions — it doesn’t actually repair the permission settings on folders and files in your Home folder where your documents and personal applications reside. RESET PERMISSION LION In Lion, there is an additional Repair Permissions application utility hidden away. This tool is located inside boot Repair Utilities. Here’s how to access it.

1 Restart Lion and hold down the Command and R keys. 2 You will boot into the Repair Utilities screen. On top, in the Menu Bar click the Utilities item then select Terminal.