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Error - 'E-mail Error : Login failed' when trying to email

Updated over a week ago

Ensure that the Profile names for your Outlook Profile and Dimensions email options match.
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To check mail profile:

  1. Open Control Panel

  2. Select Mail from the list

  3. Click Show Profiles

  4. See which profiles are in the list

    1. If there is more than 1, then note down the once you log in with, or the one that is selected at the bottom "Always use this profile:"


To check Dimensions settings:

  1. Click System

  2. User Records

  3. Select the affected user from the list and click E-Mail

  4. In the Profile field, enter the name of the profile you found in the previous section

  5. Save your changes


This error can also be caused when the version of Outlook installed is a 64-bit version. See this article for details on how to check. Dimensions will only work with 32-bit versions of Outlook.

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