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The Dreaded 0x8004010f - Operation Failed Error

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Last reviewed on February 5, 2021     2 Comments

If you receive this error code when adding a POP account to Outlook, you need to update the delivery location. Go to File > Account Settings > Account Settings. Select the email account then click the Change folder button. Select a folder - any folder will do - and click OK. Open the dialog again and select the Inbox.

More information and screenshots are here: Outlook Crashes When You Reply or Create a New Message

Go to File > Account Settings > Account Settings to open the Account Settings dialog. Double click on the account and click More Settings.

When setting up Outlook in cached mode, a common “Synchronization Failed” error is 0x8004010f - which means “address list not found” (the technical description of this is MAPI_E_NOTFOUND). There are three very common issues that may cause this:

1] You haven’t waited long enough! Unless you manually download a pre-created address book, it can take up to 48 hours for Outlook to download a new address book.

2] Your Exchange administrator forgot to specify a Default Offline Address List when he created your message store. In Exchange 2003, in the Exchange System Manager, this setting is on the General tab for the mailbox store. In Exchange 2007, in the Exchange Management Console, this setting is on the Client Settings tab for the mailbox store.

3] Your Exchange administrator has either removed the Default Offline Address List or has been messing with the security on it. Both are much more difficult to correct! You might want to encourage a call to Customer Support Services to get this one fixed.
Thankfully, the most common issues are the first two.

The Dreaded 0x8004010f - Operation Failed Error was last modified: February 5th, 2021 by Guest Author

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JK Lee
August 21, 2014 7:14 am

I'm having a problem configuring my company email account on outlook 2013 here in Seoul, South Korea.

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Diane Poremsky
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August 21, 2014 9:44 am

Is it an Exchange account? Do you get any error messages? Is outlook.exe blocked by a firewall?

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