Our vb6 application allows users to open an email with an attachment in Outlook (user clicking on cmdEmail opens Outlook in new process with details populated and a document attached). I've been asked to extend this so that an email with attachment can be opened in the new Windows 10 mail app.
Is anyone aware of any way to do this?
I've tried a few avenues:
I can't use mailto: because of the attachment requirement. I can create the email in the win10 app, but Attachment= or Attach= don't work
I've tried Simple MAPI and CDO but had trouble even getting it to work with Outlook because of an "unspecified error" when trying to send with showdialog = true, or a security warning when opening the address book when showdialog = false (although showing the client is a requirement). I've also read it's not supported by Outlook 2010 (or 2007 for CDO) so I'm doubtful it will be supported by the mail app.
The vb6 application automates Outlook by creating an Outlook.Application object (same sort of method as shown here https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/220595). Is there anyway to recreate this sort of logic with the Mail app? I can't see any object models online or see an object library in my program files.
Has anyone else managed to do this, or might be able to suggest an avenue I can explore? I've not done anything like this before (even mailto was new to me) so any suggestion or point-in-a-direction would be appreciated
Thanks
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I have a problem with creating a script that creates/forwards an email in outlook to a constant recipiant.
the plan was to select keywords from checkboxes in its form. by pressing an inplemented button, the add-in should forward the opened email with a new subject from the checked checkboxes.
since i am very new to webdesign and js i would like to know if the idea could be realized without further ado. i have already browsed several forums and found out that sending email requires a web server and email client, which is out of the question due to the dynamic use and data security. also
I have already created the form of the add in. since this has no functions yet, i save posting a code/progress.
Any feedback?
OfficeJS doesn't provide anything for moving/forwarding items in Outlook. The web add-in is working under the currently selected item only. But you may consider using EWS or Graph API for implementing the required functionality.
I am trying to build an outlook add on, using react. I looked everywhere trying to find something that uses the mailbox in which the addon has been opened from, to programmatically send an email to a specified user.
Something similar to the google's command:
GmailApp.createDraft(e.parameters.address, e.parameters.subject, e.parameters.body, {
htmlBody: e.parameters.body,
name: 'Automatic Sender'
}).send();
Is the mail-sending process available on outlook?
Outlook web add-ins work under the context of currently selected item only. OfficeJS doesn't provide anything for creating and sending emails programmatically.
In Outlook add-ins you may consider using EWS, see Call web services from an Outlook add-in for more information. Also you may take a look at the Graph API as a possible workaround.
Short Version:
I want to open any specific Outlook email from my Java app, either locally through the Outlook app or through the website on a browser. I already have the email information like folder, message ID, UID, sender, receiver, etc but not the email ID used in the URL of the Outlook website. Does anyone know of a way to do either of these things through Java?
Long Version:
I'm creating a software for my company in Java that has a built-in email client for Outlook emails so the emails can be linked with jobs in various ways. So far I've been able to make good progress with the email client section in terms of displaying a list of emails and being able to display a chosen email, but recently I've realized creating a GUI for an email editor (keeping track of reply chains, dragging in images for inline attachments, etc) is quite the gargantuan task to do on my own(JavaFX's HTML Editor could use a lot of work).
My band-aid solution for now is to have my program open the chosen email up through either:
Some (Windows 10) system command by calling the Outlook desktop application to show the email by some sort of ID (maybe UID?). I know on some level that this is possible because our company has an old program written in C# that can indeed do that.
Opening up the system's default browser with a link to "https://outlook.office365.com/mail/folder_name/id/insert_id_here". This is my preferred solution.
Here are my problems with each option so far:
There doesn't seem to be any resource I could find that provides an answer to this. The closest I can find are threads that explain how to open the default mail application with options to pre-populate to/from/subject/body sections (not to mention you can't pre-populate the body with anything besides text! So much for reply/forward messages with HTML formatting and attachments!). Another problem is that the old program I mentioned displays emails by finding the Outlook application's files (presumably the local OST file). I have no idea how the old program's able to call Outlook to show emails and even then, there's a chance that there's no Java equivalent. I, however, am using JavaMail to load up my mail, as I think it's better to talk to the Outlook mail server to fetch/push mail updates rather than wait for the Outlook app to sync up. This creates a problem because even if I knew how to call Outlook, my application may be more up to date than the Outlook app (especially if Outlook is not already open) and if call before Outlook updates, Outlook wouldn't be able to show it.
Again, I can't seem to find a resource for explaining these URL IDs. They're not the same as the mail's UIDs, and they don't seem to be anywhere in the mail's contents when grabbing mail through JavaMail. The most I was able to get from research was that they were called "long IDs", as they were just long strings (seemingly non-sequential) but that might've just been a made-up name from the article as I've found no other references to it. There's a chance that they could be some sort of encoded UID but I didn't see any note of JavaMail having to decrypt to get UIDs in the documentation. I doubt I'd be able to make any more progress with this option, but if there's a solution similar to this (perhaps some sort of script that opens up Outlook online, searches by some identifier, like body contents, and pulls up the first result? Idk much about browser scripts) I'd be happy to hear it.
I'm trying to get the contacts from Outlook (2007) using the following code:
Outlook.Application outlookApp = new Outlook.Application();
Outlook.MAPIFolder fldContacts = outlookApp.Session.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts) as Outlook.MAPIFolder;
foreach (Outlook._ContactItem contact in fldContacts.Items) {...}
The problem is that I get a warning from Outlook when I try to get the email address, something like that:
A program is trying to access e-mail address information stored in Outlook.
If this is unexpected, click Deny and verify your antivirus software is up-to-date.
For more information about e-mail safety and how you might be able to avoid getting this warning, click Help.
I would like the user to have a clean experience (this fetch is for adding new friends to the application based on their mail addresses). Skype manages to do that without Outlook asking the user to approve. The solutions I have found thus far by uncle Google turned out to be mostly dirty hacks, and I'm wondering if there's a clean way to do it.
Ideas?
A nice clean way to avoid the Outlook warning is using Add-in Express's Outlook Security Manager. It's really easy to use:
SecurityManager.DisableOOMWarnings = true;
I am trying to send an outlook appointment through code. My code is posted below. When I run it on the server with IIS 6 and an app pool under a domain account identity, it throws this error. I have tried changing various settings on the server and none worked. Outlook 2007 is installed. I have even made the domain account a local admin. Please help!
Description: An unhandled exception
occurred during the execution of the
current web request. Please review the
stack trace for more information about
the error and where it originated in
the code.
Exception Details:
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException:
Operation aborted (Exception from
HRESULT: 0x80004004 (E_ABORT))
Line 201: objAppt.Send();
Code below:
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application objOL
= new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application();
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.AppointmentItem objAppt
= (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.AppointmentItem)objOL
.CreateItem
(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlItemType.olAppointmentItem);
objAppt.Start = startTime;//datetime
objAppt.End = endTime;//datetime
objAppt.Subject = subject;
objAppt.Body = body;
objAppt.Location = location;
objAppt.MeetingStatus
= Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlMeetingStatus.olMeeting;
objAppt.RequiredAttendees = "test#test.com";
objAppt.Send();
objAppt = null;
objOL = null;
Yes as casperOne said I wouldn't use outlook on the server. I would use CDO or RDO(redemeption) for this. or even use vcal and send the vcal on a system.Net.Mail.
Update:
Take a look at http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/rdo/RDOAppointmenItem.htm
Show you how to do excatly what you want to do using RDO. You can do the same with CDO as well. Check out CDOLive.com
You will have to construct a teh login details as you are on a server that has no Outlook profile (thats if you remove the one that you allready have on there)
Quite simply, you shouldn't be doing this. It is not recommended that you run Office in a server environment because of the threading (and desktop session) requirements that Office has.
Are you trying to do this on an Exchange server? If so, then I would interact directly with the Exchange server (using WebDAV perhaps?).
If not connecting with Exchange, then take a look at the headers for an invitation to the event. The invitations should be nothing more than regular emails with custom header information.
I guess the reason you cannot use Outlook from an IIS application is because the current user the IIS app is running under does not have an Outlook profile associated.
Therefore you can instantiate Outlook objects and set their properties, until profile-specific functionality is required, such as the Send() command, which would store the outgoing mail in the user's/profile's (non-existing) pst file.
Don't do this using Outlook automation.
Straight from the horse's mouth:
Microsoft does not currently recommend, and does not support, Automation of Microsoft Office applications from any unattended, non-interactive client application or component (including ASP, ASP.NET, DCOM, and NT Services), because Office may exhibit unstable behavior and/or deadlock when Office is run in this environment.
If you are building a solution that runs in a server-side context, you should try to use components that have been made safe for unattended execution. Or, you should try to find alternatives that allow at least part of the code to run client-side. If you use an Office application from a server-side solution, the application will lack many of the necessary capabilities to run successfully. Additionally, you will be taking risks with the stability of your overall solution.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257757
Examine email headers sent by Outlook when it's doing this job to work out how this is done, and emulate it using the standard .NET SmtpClient stuff.