[Last updated: 2017-08-07]

The search expressions below should cover standard configurations for English and German versions of: Outlook, OWA, smartphones (Android-based, Blackberry, IPhone).
Should you find cases where these search expressions don't work, then please send us (support@netal.com) sample messages as attachments for further review.


Plain text:

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HTML text:

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-Franz Krainer