Outlook 2013 IMAP Troubles (SlipStick Systems, April 2016).

Outlook 2013 crashes on IMAP sync (Microsoft Community forum, Bob Hyman answer, January 2016).

The most common and widespread workaround that can be found online nowadays is described in the following posts:

Once we confirm that the problem concerns our scenario, we can proceed with the solution. If the error shows the OUTLMIME.DLL library, then it’s very likely that we’re dealing with the issue described in this post otherwise, it there could be other reasons (such as this one) that could cause the same kind of crash. Name of the module that generated the error: OUTLMIME.DLL, version. Name of the application that generated the error: OUTLOOK.EXE, version. The best way to do this is to take a look at the Windows Event Log ( Control Panel> Administrative Tools> Event Log), which should present the following error entry within the “Applications” panel: Needless to say, since there is a ton of other common scenarios that could cause such kind of crash, the first thing to do is to make sure that we’re actually dealing with this one. Not surprisingly, the problem tends to occur in all scenarios where there are a lot of different IMAP accounts installed on the system and/or with a large number of e-mails (and/or used space). This is a rather common issue that occurs in most pre-365 versions of MS Outlook (up to Outlook 2016 included): in all these versions the IMAP protocol has been implemented, to put it mildly, in as rather “problematic” way, which often causes synchronization issues and other nasty bugs. The problem, as you can easily guess by the post title, is that MS Outlook abruptly crashes during the startup (either immediately or after a short while), with the typical error popup message warning the user that “Microsoft Outlook has stopped working”:

In this post, we’ll address a common issue occurring with most versions of MS Outlook with one or more IMAP accounts configured locally ( IMAP is an acronym for Internet Message Access Protocol – for more info, read here).

Outlook 2019 keeps crashing