This error was caused by visual studio being run as admin. Outlook doesn’t allow separate users to access the same mailbox (I had the outlook application open on desktop). Even though I have local admin access w/ my domain user, running VS as admin must associate the process to a different user object? Not exactly … Read more
The way to send a meeting request to Outlook (and have it recognized) goes like this: prepare an iCalendar file, be sure to set these additional properties, as Outlook needs them: UID SEQUENCE CREATED LAST-MODIFIED DTSTAMP prepare a multipart/alternative mail: Part 1: text/html (or whatever you like) – this is displayed to “ordinary” mail readers … Read more
This code will add an event listener to the default local Inbox, then take some action on incoming emails. You need to add that action in the code below. Private WithEvents Items As Outlook.Items Private Sub Application_Startup() Dim olApp As Outlook.Application Dim objNS As Outlook.NameSpace Set olApp = Outlook.Application Set objNS = olApp.GetNamespace(“MAPI”) ‘ default … Read more
Unfortunately, when it comes to EDMs (Electronic Direct Mail), Outlook is your worst enemy. Some versions don’t respect padding when a cell’s content dictates the cell dimensions. The approach that’ll give you the most consistent result across mail clients is to use empty table cells as padding (I know, the horror), but remember to fill … Read more
I guess problem is in width attributes in table and td remove ‘px’ for example <table border=”0″ cellpadding=”0″ cellspacing=”0″ width=”580px” style=”background-color: #0290ba;”> Should be <table border=”0″ cellpadding=”0″ cellspacing=”0″ width=”580″ style=”background-color: #0290ba;”>
This is my Save Attachments script. You select all the messages that you want the attachments saved from, and it will save a copy there. It also adds text to the message body indicating where the attachment is saved. You could easily change the folder name to include the date, but you would need to … Read more
Even if you set font-family: arial to table, it still wont work. You need to specifically set the font for each td inside your table to get it right.
Found a solution after much brain-wracking. Instead of this: <!–[if mso]><v:shape>…</v:shape><![endif]–> <!–[if !mso]>[fallback goes here]<![endif]–> This works very well: <!–[if mso]> <v:shape>…</v:shape> <div style=”width:0px; height:0px; overflow:hidden; display:none; visibility:hidden; mso-hide:all;”> <![endif]–> [fallback goes here] <!–[if mso]></div><![endif]–> All it does is wrap the fallback in an invisible div in MSO, and deploys the vector solution instead. Hope … Read more
For future visitors: https://github.com/mmanela/MarkdownOutlook Per their wiki: A simple plugin for Outlook 2013 which adds a button to the compose mail menu to enable Markdown mode. When enabled your email will be turned from Markdown syntax to html when sending. Uses MarkdownSharp for the markdown conversion Uses VSTO to integrate with Outlook Uses an Installer … Read more