Questions tagged [outlook]

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft (most notably used for handling e-mail), available both as a separate application as well as a part of the Microsoft Office suite.

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft (most notably used for handling e-mail), available both as a separate application as well as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. It includes an e-mail client, calendar and other personal information organization tools.

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How to insert hyperlink into email body

I created a macro in Excel to send emails to various users every time a specific file is updated. Private Sub Workbook_BeforeSave(ByVal SaveAsUI As Boolean, Cancel As Boolean) Dim answer As String answer = MsgBox("Would you like to save the…
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Attaching unsaved Excel file to email

I have an Excel form for users to fill and send as an attachment (without having to save it locally on their computer). The code works. Dim Names() Names = Array("testmail@gmail.com") ActiveWorkbook.SendMail _ Recipients:=Names(),…
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How should my android app connect to Exchange server?

I want to get tasks from an exchange server for sync in an android app. I'm not interested in contacts, emails or calendar items, just tasks. There seems to be a few ways to connect to an exchange server but the documentation is both vast and…
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Using OLE in Perl to traverse Outlook folders

I've got a script which will happily export messages from a folder in outlook to rfc822 files, fine. But I want to traverse/iterate/recurse through the entire list of folders in outlook to extract copies of everything. I'm thwarted by days of…
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Email to link with email parameter opens outlook in browser starts new email

I am looking to replace for "mailto:" that redirect users to their outlook account in browser and do new email with the email in the link. mailto: works for all users if they have set up default application outlook locally.
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Parse .olk15Message file in python on Mac

I'm trying to parse email files with the extension .olk15Message, which are files produced by Outlook 2016 on Mac. The files are some sort of binary format, so it's not obvious how to read from them. I've read in another thread that using the…
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Extracting appointments from shared Outlook calendar to Excel

I am trying to extract appointments from a shared Outlook calendar to Excel using a VBA macro in Excel. The code fails whether I try to define objOwner and olFolderCalendar as either Object or Outlook.Recipient / Outlook.Folder for use in the…
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Sending mail to company configured outlook using nodejs

I was trying to send a simple mail from a Node.js code to my company e-mail which is on outlook but does not have the address as 'mymial@outlook.com' but it is like 'mymail@myorg.co.in'. I am getting this error: Error: connect ETIMEDOUT…
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timezone issue in outlook emails while connected using python

When I use msg.SentOn.stftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z %z %p") I get GMT as timezone however all the message times are in IST for example an email sent at 1.30PM IST shows 2017-09-19 13:30:51 GMT+00:00 +000. However what I want is 2017-09-19 09:00:51…
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How to save email as draft?

I have 20+ emails created by Excel VBA code. I want to save these as draft. With OutMail .SentOnBehalfOfName = email_from .To = email_to .CC = email_cc .BCC = email_bcc .subject = subject .HTMLBody = "Dear All,
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How to create a linear gradient background that will display in emails in Outlook

I want to add a linear gradient as the background of a newsletter I'm designing but I'm having problems setting it to work. First, I used CSS linear-gradient with rgba colors. It was working in the browser in Apple Mail, but not with Outlook and…
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Outlook: How to access other contact folders?

Some people have a number of lists/folders in Outlook, under Contacts (e.g. besides Contacts and Suggested Contacts, people can add new "folders" of contacts). Now, my questions: How can I get a list of all these lists/folders? How can I access all…
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Enable Outlook Web Add-in only on the Web

I developed an Outlook web-based add-in. To install it, I added the manifest file from the "Manage add-ins" page in OWA: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/fp142256.aspx. The add-in is showing up in both Outlook Web App and Windows…
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C# Winforms: Accessing Outlook with Multiple Mailboxes

I'm trying to access an Outlook Mailbox from C# / Winforms. I have two separate mailboxes that my user profile can access. How can i code it so that it only pulls from a certain mailbox? Here's what I have currently, but it only pulls the info from…
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Getting an Outlook.AppointmentItem's properties is very slow

I am developing an Outlook add-in, the primary purpose of which is to collect meeting data. Naturally this means I need to loop through some meetings! So I do that and start getting some property values out of the meeting objects. At this point…
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