outlook

what client(s) should be targeted in implementing an ICalendar export for events?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar I'm working to implement an export feature for events. The link above lists tons of clients that support the ICalendar standard, but the "three big ones" I can see are Apple's iCal, Microsoft's Outlook, and Google's Gmail. I'm starting to get the feeling that each of these client implement differe...

Standard Signature a Text in a Message using Exchange Server

Hi, Anyone know how to do this without using a third party program? If there no way to do it with a add-on someone can recommend one? EDIT: I need to add this in the server so all users have the same signature. Thanks ...

simultaneous Outlook reminders on multiple devices

Disclaimer: This is not actually a programming question, but I feel the audience on stackoverflow is more likely to have an answer than most question/answer sites out there. Please forgive me, Joel, for stealing your question. Joel asked this question on a podcast a while back but I don't think it ever got resolved. I'm in the same si...

Read from .msg files

I need to read from Outlook .MSG file in .NET without using COM API for Outlook (cos it will not be installed on the machines that my app will run). Are there any free 3rd party libraries to do that? I want to extract From, To, CC and BCC fields. Sent/Receive date fields would be good if they are also stored in MSG files. ...

Accessing an Exchange Server without Outlook

Is there a method of accessing an Exchange server that does not have IMAP or POP3 enabled without Outlook? It does not appear that Outlook Express supports Exchange (only IMAP and POP3). ...

Outlook Add-in using .NET

Hello, We have been developing an Outlook Add-in using Visual Studio 2008. However I am facing a strange behavior while adding a command button to a custom command bar. This behavior is reflected when we add the button in the reply, reply all and forward windows. The issue is that the caption of the command button is not visible though ...

Outlook synchronization on multiple machines

This isn't much of a programming question, but I'm sure I'm not the only person here who has this issue. Currently I have two machines with Outlook 2007. They both sync e-mail from Google Apps. One of the machines publishes my calendar to a secure server, which my other machine is subscribed to. The problem with this setup is that I hav...

My very own customized Outlook 2007 inbox

I'm trying to add a main-view (like inbox, contacts, etc...) to my outlook 2007 using C#. anyone have a clue if this possible or a sample code for it? ...

Inbox Management (in Outlook)

I've gone back and forth between having an organized inbox and having an inbox with absolutely everything I've received in it. Would you recommend leaving everything in an inbox, or organize it? If you organize it, is there any method to your madness or possibly an Outlook (2003) plug-in to aid in this task? For what it's worth, I f...

good directory picker for visual basic macros in MS Outlook (2007)

I wrote a visual basic macro for archiving attachments for Outlook 2007, but did not find a totally satisfactory way for showing a directory picker from the outlook macro. Now, I don't know much about either Windows APIs or VB(A) programming, but the "standard" windows file dialog I see most often in Microsoft applications would seem lik...

Outlook Email via a Webpage

I have a web application developed with ASP.net and C# that is running on my companies' intranet. Because all the users for this application are all using Microsoft Outlook without exception, I would like for the the application to open up an Outlook message on the client-side. I understand that Office is designed to be run on the des...

How can I export Shared Outlook Calendars?

I am looking for a solution to export Shared Outlook Calendars (yes, I'm using exchange server and yes I can copy calendar to my local folders, which would allow me to export. However, what if there are more than 50 calendars, which I need to export? Is there a way of automating the process?). I am interested in using C# for accomplish...

How do I assign a keyboard shortcut to a VBA macro in Outlook 2007?

How can I assign a keyboard shortcut to a VBA macro in Outlook 2007? I know how to create a tool for the macro and put it in a menu with an underscore shortcut. This solution requires me to use a shortcut of ALT-{menu key}-{tool key}. What if I want to assign it to ALT-F12 or something like that? The Visual Basic Editor is assigned to ...

Mail Storage Quota Checker in C#

We have a requirement to build a tool for users in an Intranet scenario. The tool should check how much percentage of the Mailbox Quota (set in Active Directory) is being used. Currently, they can check their Folder size using Outlook 2003 but this does not show the Quota Limit set for them or the percentage being used. This blog has a...

How do I keep RecipientTime when executing MailItem.Move in an Outlook macro?

In an Outlook 2003 macro; Is there a way to move a message between folders without changing the ReceivedTime-header? I currently use the method MailItem.Move. But that automatically sets the ReceivedTime property to the current time, which isn't really what I want. ...

What's the best library for reading Outlook .msg files in Java ?

I would like to read the text and binary attachments in a saved Outlook message (.msg file) from a Java application, without resorting to native code (JNI, Java Native Interface). Apache POI-HSMF seems to be in the right direction, but it's in very early stages of development... ...

Outlook 07 2 column flexible layout

I am trying to create an email two column flexible layout, which works in outlook 07, i have created a successful version in outlook 03, hotmail, gmail, yahoo and aol, in both IE and Mozilla Firefox, however when testing in outlook 07 it strips out my float left css. What I would like is a layout that has a photo on the left and text o...

Using Outlook API to get to a specific folder

Hi Everybody, I'm trying to write some C# code to get to a specific folder in an Outlook mailbox. I have the following code: Outlook.Application oApp = new Outlook.Application(); Outlook.NameSpace oNS = oApp.GetNamespace("mapi"); Outlook.Recipient oRecip = oNS.CreateRecipient("AccountNameHere"); oRecip.Resolve(); if (oRecip.Resolved) {...

What emails clients are being used out there?

This is not "exactly" a programming question, but it's highly related. We are writing an app that sends out email invitations for a client (no, it's not spam). Their designer gave us an HTML and CSS template to use which is fine. The problem is that it looks like crap in Outlook 2007 because Microsoft decided to use Word (of all thing...

Outlook + Perl + Win32::Ole: How do you select calendar entries sorted by date?

Current code opens up an Outlook Calendar database as follow: my $outlook = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Outlook.Application') || Win32::OLE->new('Outlook.Application', 'Quit'); my $namespace = $outlook->GetNamespace("MAPI"); ## only fetch entries from Jan 1, 2007 onwards my $restrictDates = "[Start] >= '01/01/2007'"; ...