I have a new Script I'm building for my office where a greasemonkey button, aside from prompting to enter an specific error number also needs to open outlook and send a message to a certain address with said error number in the subject line...
Any ideas I'm tapped out
Code:
addButton(f_l, 'Error number', function() {
url = prompt("Please provide the full error number","");
surround('','');
});
It enters the text into the box on the page, but it doesn't create a new email.
The How to automate Outlook from another program article describes all the required steps for automating Outlook from another applications.
Also see How To: Create and send an Outlook message programmatically.
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I am developing an Outlook 'on-send' add-in which loads a dialog box if the email is addressed to multiple recipients after the send button is pressed. In the dialog, the user confirms the intended recipients from a list and then presses send. The add-in then allows the send event to happen.
A problem arises if the emails are not formatted correctly; Outlook throws a ‘does not recognise email’ error after trying to send the email. The problem is that when I try to send the email again after the error, the add-in does not load. The add-in should load every time the user tries to send an email to multiple recipients.
Please see a video of this behaviour here: https://youtu.be/U1VFuy1qbHM
As you can see from the video, the email goes to my Outbox fine after the first send. However, Outlook throws an errors when I edit the email in my Outbox and try to send it again (presumably because I was using a made up email to test with). As you can see, if I then update the emails and click send, the email sends without the add-in loading again. The intended functionality of the add-in is that another dialog box should be displayed in this case.
This behaviour also occurs when you reply to an email where the recipient has their email address formatted differently. For example, 'Name Surname (name.surname#domain.com)' instead of 'Name Surname <name.surname#domain.com>'. Outlook does not seem to like this format and throws a similar error after trying to send the email. After updating the email format and clicking send, the add-in does not load again.
The error occurs in Win32.
I do not think the problem is with the Javascript. I think the add-in does not even load when I try to resend the email. Maybe the add-in is somehow holding onto the ‘True’ value of the on-send event from the previous dialog box? I have tried editing the different ‘ReadorEdit’ values in the Manifest file to try and ensure the add-in loads for all cases but it has not helped.
What can I do to ensure the add-in loads after these errors?
Thank you for your help- it is very much appreciated.
I'm currently building an integration with Office 365 Outlook thanks to the Microsoft Graph API. I retrieve user messages data, along with the webLink, which is a direct URL to the message in Outlook Web App.
By default, it opens in a popout window displaying only this message. My goal is to display it in the full Outlook Web App. In the documentation of a Message resource, Microsoft states this:
You can append an ispopout argument to the end of the URL to change how the message is displayed. If ispopout is not present or if it is set to 1, then the message is shown in a popout window. If ispopout is set to 0, then the browser will show the message in the Outlook Web App review pane.
Doing this works well if the e-mail is in the Inbox mail folder. However, if it is in another folder (like Sent Items or a custom one), it always redirects to the Inbox and opens the first message in it.
Is it a known limitation of this parameter? Is there a workaround to achieve this?
Best regards!
I am creating an addin for Outlook.
I want to check some text on sending, but im not sure how to reference it
The text is in the image below and says “Attachment will be sent using...”
If the text equals the text displayed, i want to do something.
Thanks for any advice.
The Outlook object model doesn't provide anything for reading mail tips. But you may consider using EWS for getting mail tips. See Using MailTips in EWS to get the OOF (Out of Office) Status of users with C# and Powershell for the sample code.
FYI MailTips are informative messages displayed to users in the infobar in Outlook Web App and Outlook 2010/2013/2016 when a user does any of the following while composing an e-mail message:
Add a recipient
Add an attachment
Reply or Reply all
Open a message from the Drafts folder that's already addressed to recipients
To configure MailTips for mailboxes, external contacts, and distribution groups, in the Exchange Control Panel, select the mailbox, external contact, or distribution group, click Details, and then in the MailTip section, create the MailTip.
To configure MailTips for mail users and dynamic distribution groups, in Windows PowerShell, use the MailTip parameter on the Set-MailUser and Set-DynamicDistributionGroup cmdlets.
Regardless of whether you use the Exchange Control Panel or Windows PowerShell, two things always happen when you add a MailTip to a recipient:
HTML tags are automatically added to the text. For example, if you enter the following text: This mailbox is not monitored. The MailTip automatically becomes the following: <html><body>This mailbox is not monitored.</body></html>
The text is automatically added to the MailTipTranslations property as the default value. If you modify the MailTip text, the default value is automatically updated in the MailTipTranslations property.
Read more about that in the Configure MailTips article.
I can programmatically create an email with an .ics file attached. The email gets sent, the recipient clicks the .ics attachment to add it to their calendar. This is easily done.
I want to try and make Outlook behave a little different. When the user previews the message it detects that its calendar type and throws a prompt asking the user to take some action. This action decides if it gets pushed into the calendar. In a perfect world to have accept/reject/ignore options would be super sweet. Is it possible to construct/send and email in such a way that Outlook can treat it different from a standard email? E.G perhaps altering the type (CONTENT-TYPE:text/calendar)?
Note - I have seen a solution where the body contains a link to the .ics file informing the user about the calendar invite details. It then has a click here to Accept. This is nice because the .ics file does not have to be attached.
I am workign in VBScript/VBS world although Im not sure this is all that important. Has anybody done this is any sense. Is it even possible?
edited:
I ended up using the EASendMail component located here it has an autoCalendar property which works really well. It embeds the .ics file as a text/calendar and send the message as a text/calendar. The outcome is perfect, just like it was actually sent from the outlook. It previews with with the action buttons and even loads the meeting in Outlook at tentative waiting for action
Your email needs to follow a proper MIME structure for it to be recognized as an invitation. See Multipart email with text and calendar: Outlook doesn't recognize ics
My default email client is Windows Live Mail. When I right click on a file and select Send To->Mail Recipient Windows Live Mail New Message Window pops up, file is attached but body and subject are filled and I want them to be empty. Also, I want to Recipient (To: field) be filled with predefined address. What I found out so far:
Windows Live Mail (WLM) doesn't support automation via VBA so can't use vb scripting. Open Default E-mail Client using .Vbs file.
Note that you cannot attach files from the command line so can't create custom shortcut in Send To folder. Create a Message in Windows Live Mail or Outlook Express from the Command Line