In outlook 2010 when you use conditional formatting I can only seem to change the message subject in the little preview pane thing. Is there a way to also, say, bold the preview of the message body along with the message subject instead of only bolding the message subject for unread emails?
No, only the explorer message list uses custom formatting.
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I've been trying to activate my add-in when the user open his email so I can analyze it. I found one example in on add-in from another company (Retruster). The issue I didn't found way to reproduce the action. Someone knows how to reproduce this event? Because I just found when sending a message.
The labels shown on the YouTube video are categories set on emails. They can be set on the Exchange server side when your message arrives without any add-in involved. Remember, add-in activation rules are described in the manifest file - it can be regex filters, known entities etc. Read more about them in the Activation rules for contextual Outlook add-ins article.
The add-in starts working when the user clicks on the ribbon button.
I'm trying to create an Outlook Add-In that will forward the selected mail message as an attachment when the button is pressed. Preferably this will work both for the Outlook Client, and Outlook Web Access. To do this, I need to add a button to the main UI in Outlook which shows the list of messages.
However, within the new Add-In format, I don't see an ExtensionPoint for Outlook that allows adding a button to the main mail UI.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/reference/manifest/extensionpoint#extension-points-for-word-excel-powerpoint-and-onenote-add-in-commands
There are options for the MessageRead pane or the MessageCompose pane, but I don't see anything for the general overview.
However, the following New Feature complains that multiple mail items can't be selected with the add-in syntax, which seems to imply that a single mail item can be selected. If a single mail item can be selected, then that implies that there is a way to add a button to the overview mail page since that's the only place mail can be selected.
This makes me think it is possible to do this, but I'm not sure how.
Can someone please point me to how this might be done?
NOTE: I am NOT trying to create a COM plugin. That is the old format and I've noticed they're increasingly less reliable in Outlook 2016. I am trying to use the new format.
The MessageReadCommandSurface and MessageComposeCommandSurface extension points for Outlook applies to both the main Outlook window (the Explorer) and the item (Inspector) windows. The Explorer Ribbon buttons activate when an email is selected, so the buttons interact on the selected email. So you don't have to do anything if you've already defined those extension points.
Recently, with the help of some tutorials, I successfully set-up my own mailserver on my Pi 2 using postfix and dovecot. Everything works well, however, when I receive e-mail in Outlook 2013 I always see "<end>" in the preview of the message below the header. Is there a way to fix this in the configuration of postfix/dovecot?
Please see screenshot below to give you and idea:
Thank you very much for your help!
Rob
This is a feature of Microsoft Outlook, that when the entire message is displayed in the preview pane, it adds <end> at the end, to tell you that what you see is all of what you get.
I don't know why you need to "fix" this, but as far as I know the only to to prevent the message preview from displaying <end> is to make the message long enough that the end of the message doesn't make it into the preview pane.
With a VSTO add-in, is it possible to replace the Outlook 2013 new email body editor with something custom?
(What I want is MarkdownOutlook which is a good start but I want it to show side-by-side preview and better keystroke handling (like tab) closer to http://dillinger.io/)
Thanks!
You'd have to use custom forms to edit the UI of the IPM.Note message class and replace the Body control with another editor control. This is not a trivial thing to do as Word is the default editor and there is a very tight coupling with Outlook for message viewing/editing functionality.
Another alternative to customizing the message class is to create an Add-in Express or Outlook Form Region that replaces the default form UI entirely with your .NET Windows Form. But that's even more work as you'd need to recreate the message envelope controls for sending.
When composing an outlook message, I would like to provide non-invasive feedback to the user regarding whether the email is being sent to email addresses on approved domains.
For example, if the user is sending an email where the 'To:', 'CC:' or 'BCC:' text fields contains an email address which does not end in '#AnEmailAddress.com' then a warning of some kind should be displayed appropriately.
The warning could be a single icon which shows red or green, or perhaps each name/email address can be formatted on the 'To:' et al text fields directly, in order to provide the feedback.
I've done some digging with no specific results. I'm not sure if this can be done with VBA or the scripting within Outlook forms. Or perhaps an add-in needs to be written via .net?
Any pointers greatly appreciated.
This is a good candidate for .NET add-in. Not sure if you can do that from VBA.
Depending on the range of Outlook versions you need to support, you may want to go for VSTO add-in (separate builds for different versions) or NetOffice (one build for nearly all versions). Both have pros and cons so you need to be more specific to make a choice.
If you already compose your outlook messages with for example C# than use it also to implement some kind of alerts you want..
You question is - VBA, scripting or .NET?
My answer: it depends on your skills and preferences