FocalScope can coexist with any other email client and does not require any changes to your mail server. However, as Outlook has specifically been designed to work with Exchange, Outlook has extensive control over the mail server. Thus, in Outlook-Exchange environments FocalScope may not be able to retrieve new emails when used in conjunction with Outlook. This article covers some of the critical settings in Outlook / Exchange that may prevent FocalScope from performing as expected.
If you notice you are not receiving new emails in FocalScope (this may occur with only a few emails), verify if the following conditions have occurred in Outlook (or any other email client that you are using).
If a user moves an email from their Outlook inbox folder to another folder, e.g., the [Customer A] folder in Figure 1, then FocalScope will not be able to retrieve the email when it connects to Exchange, as the email will not be located under the inbox folder (where FocalScope retrieves all new emails on Exchange).
Figure 1 - Manually relocating emails in Outlook
Similarly to the previous cause, if emails are being moved out of Outlooks inbox folder by Outlook Rules (see Figure 2), then FocalScope will be unable to retrieve the message from Exchange as FocalScope can only retrieve new emails from the inbox folder.
Figure 2 - Rule-based email relocation in Outlook
Deleting emails from Outlook's inbox folder will have a the same effect as moving emails out of the inbox folder; again making it impossible for FocalScope to retrieve the email(s) from Exchange.
Figure 3 - Deleted emails in Outlook
Outlook has a main setting that dictates how it retrieves emails from Exchange. For FocalScope (and other email clients) to be able to download emails, it is required that Outlook be configured to leave a copy of messages on the mail server. This can be configured as follows:
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