Microsoft Office Inside Out (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365)

Chapter 26

Securing and maintaining Outlook

Security overview

Configuring Outlook security settings

Encrypting email and using digital signatures

The perils of HTML email

Dealing with message attachments

Coping with junk email

Creating email rules

Managing rules

Archiving Outlook items

Configuring an autoreply message

Outlook’s capabilities for communication are based on the fact that Outlook is connected to a data network. Whereas some Outlook users take advantage of Outlook’s features in controlled and secure corporate network environments, many of us use Outlook as an email, calendar, and contacts tool to communicate directly over the internet. And although we have virus protection and other security software on our computers (and perhaps ...