outlook

Convert email address from X400 to SMTP

I'm trying to get the SMTP address from an X400 address in VB.Net. If I bring up the Outlook properties for a user in our domain, and look at the "Email Addresses", I can see the SMTP address, but I need to get at it through code. I tried inspecting the Address Book in OutlookSpy to see if I could come up with a property in the outlook...

How to send multiple drafts from Outlook 2003

Outlook wont let me send multiple drafts at the same time. Is there an easy way to send multiple drafts at once in outlook? without having to open each one individually? From what i've read, seen and tried; this is not possible from within outlook itself, and thus a programming solution would be required, probably some VB script ...

How Can I Send Multiple Events To an Outlook 2003 Calendar in 3 or less clicks?

Basically I want someone to be able to click a bunch of events on my website, and have them all synced in a pain-free way to their primary Outlook calendar. I know I can send an ics with multiple events in it, but this creates a second calendar (unless you import the calendar which is more than 3 clicks). I can also have a user sync to...

Shellexecute from Outlook

I would like to launch a URL when an email arrives in Outlook. I setup a rule and have it trigger a script function. It looks like I want to call ShellExecute to launch the URL in a browser, but when I hit this line: ShellExecute(0&, "open", URL, vbNullString, vbNullString, _ vbNormalFocus) The method is not defined. Any ideas?...

Detecting AutoArchive Settings/Store in Outlook 2007

I want to write a simple Outlook 2007 AddIn that allows me to manually Auto-Archive mails. That is, I right-click a mail, select Auto-Archive and it gets moved into my Archive folder. Unfortunately, I do not seem to be able to detect which one is the Archive Storage. I know that Application.GetNamespace("MAPI").Stores is a list of all m...

Configuring Outlook Webpart in Sharepoint 2007

I'm exploring sharepoint a bit. I would like to show the email inbox and calendar of the user logged in. The logging in of defferent users is no problem. We are running Exchange 2003 and we're using the webaccess. This works without any problems also. I added the OWACalendarPart to the default.aspx page. When I set mail server address t...

Accessing another maibox in outlook using vba

Hey! I have two mailboxes in my Outlook. One that is mine and it automatically logs me in when I log in to my pc and another I have that is for mail bounces. I really need to access the inbox of the mail's account but I just can't seem to do it. And there is no way I can make the mailbox of the mail account to be my default mailbox ...

Email download speed om microsoft outlook

I have setup email addresses to directly download messages using the POP3 protocol. The download speeds are terrible 9usually in 2-10kb/ sec), while the connection is 512mbps. What is the best way to increase the download speed of emails on Microsoft outlook for POP3 mail messages? ...

Outlook nagging dialog about macro

Hey! I am following the code from microsoft from this page: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306108 This is what I have: Public Sub GetMails(Item As Outlook.MailItem) MsgBox "Mail message arrived: " & Item.SenderEmailAddress MsgBox "Mail message arrived: " & Item.Subject MsgBox "Mail message arrived: " & Item.Body End Sub ...

Outlook 2007 DASL query tasks

Hi, I'm going crazy on this one. Basically I want to retrieve a task based on the EntryID of this task. so what I do is the following: Outlook.MAPIFolder outlookTasksFolder = Application.Session.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderTasks); string filter = String.Format("@SQL=\"urn:schemas:tasks:entryid\" like '%{0}%'", myEn...

Sending Rich Text Format email using Outlook 2003

I am trying to send a Rich Text Format email message using Outlook 2003. The following code results the RTF HTML source code to be dumped into the mail message body. What should I do in order to fix that, and make Outlook display the formatted data and not the source HTML ? import win32com.client RTFTEMPLATE = """<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC...

Outlook automatically change reminder based on category

I need to automate Outlook so that when a user sets a certain category on an appointment, it automatically sets the reminder time based on the category. For example, the user has an "On site meeting" category and an "Off site meeting" category. He wants the reminder time to automatically change to 15 minutes for an on site meeting and ...

Outlook VBA - How to access the range of time currently selected on a calendar?

I am trying to write a VBA macro in Outlook that will allow me to display a custom UI for entering information on Outlook appointments. I have this working for existing appointments, but I would like to be able to create new appointments by having the user click and drag to select a time range and then trigger the macro. (This works for...

What can you do with Microsoft Outlook plugins

I have no experience in plugin development for MS Office. Can anyone tell me what is possible to do with the MS Outlook plugin API. The specific thing I am interested in is to change the way that Outlook displays emails. For example: Can I make a plugin that will show an email conversation thread and color each alternate RE: message in...

outlook spell check outbound only

In outlook, the admin can force all users to endure a spell check for each email. Can Outlook be set to enforce spell check only for emails that are outbound from the company domain, so that "in-house" emails would not be spell-checked, but all emails going out from the domain would be checked? ...

E-mails sent through php5+htmlMimeMail are being received with random characters replaced with =

Hi all, currently using PHP5 with htmlMimeMail 5 (http://www.phpguru.org/static/mime.mail.html) to send HTML e-mail communications. Have been having issues with a number of recipients seeing random characters replaced with equals signs e.g.: "Good mor=ing. Our school is sending our newsletter= and information through a company called......

Custom form could not be opened. problem with outlook

I am migrating some TB of data from a user's mail box to multiple psts. I have written a tool to automate this process. this tool reads all the mails from inbox, and moves them to pst. No body is using these mail boxes i am workin on. Some times, during process, i get a pop up that "Custom form could not be opened. Outlook will use an Ou...

ATTnnnnn.txt attachments when e-mail is received in Outlook

I've written an SMTP client that sends e-mails with attachments. Everything's fine except that when an e-mail sent by my program is received by Outlook it displays two attachments - the file actually sent and a file with two characters CR and LF inside and this file has name ATT?????.txt. I've done search - found a lot of matches like t...

Creating Outlook Voting button and tracking response in C# ??

Using C# 2.0 I would like to: Add voting button in Outlook mail message and send. Track the response. I can see some reference material to read the mail content so may be tracking will be possible, but how do I achieve a voting button? ...

No AttachmentRemoved event in Outlook 2003 object model...?

Hi I'm currently working with the Outlook 2003 object model in VB6. I'm trying to detect when a user removes an attachment from a message but although the model provides AttachmentAdd and AttachmentRead events, I can't see how to pick up that an attachment has been removed ? Any thoughts...? TIA Matt ...