Support Microsoft Outlook

[rainoxu]

Outlook is widely used in most company, when it can be supported ?

[adam-p]

This is not probable in the short term.

Problems: a) I don't own a copy of Office/Outlook newer than 2003 or so. (I have the Office 2013 trial installed. It's expired, but maybe it would work.) b) After some research and trying It seems like VS2012 Express can't be used to create Outlook addins.

Both of those are basically monetary hurdles, but expensive ones. (I haven't done the technical research to see how easy or hard the actual code would be.)

[rainoxu]

hmm... the plugin is almost perfect, while I see evernote has outlook plugin to fetch mail content to its client, maybe you can communicate with their develop team for some help, with the outlook supported, this plugin will be amazing, I believe more and more people will enjoy write mail by markdown :)

[jeffason]

I wrote a quick Outlook 2013 AddIn using VS2013 that works in a limited way - https://github.com/jeffason/MarkdownForOutlook

It'd be nice to bring in all the Markdown Here features into the AddIn

[rainoxu]

@jeffason good job, that's cool ~~~~

[lepht]

Markdown Here works remarkably well in Outlook Web Access (OWA) for me -- perfect if your company has it enabled on your Exchange servers

[BenRacicot]

Hey @lepht what info can I bring to my admins at work to have it enabled? Just ask if Markdown-here can be enabled on the exchange server?

[adam-p]

@BenRacicot Markdown Here is a browser extension, so you can use it with OWA as long as you use Chrome or Firefox.

[lepht]

@BenRacicot yeah, sorry that was awkwardly worded. I meant if OWA is enabled by your admins. Markdown here worked remarkably well out of the box in OWA for me.

[phw198]

In case it helps, linking in someone else's effort here too - though it appears to trample the existing formatting of an email (eg signature) and doesn't support emoji.

🔗 https://github.com/mmanela/MarkdownOutlook

Agree with @jeffason would be nice to have various efforts consolidated into Markdown-Here.

[felixfbecker]

This would be awesome.

[ailjushkin]

FYI: there are some issues in the outlook plugin (https://github.com/mmanela/MarkdownOutlook/issues/16) that would be great to have them fixed. If any of you guys know who is using MS Outlook and want to use markdown, can you please share this project (https://github.com/mmanela/MarkdownOutlook/issues/16) with them so they could bring some PRs to it to improve its logic?

Thanks )

[seamusdemora]

@adam-p said on 5/31/13:

This is not probable in the short term.

Problems: a) I don't own a copy of Office/Outlook newer than 2003 or so. (I have the Office 2013 trial installed. It's expired, but maybe it would work.) b) After some research and trying It seems like VS2012 Express can't be used to create Outlook addins.

Both of those are basically monetary hurdles, but expensive ones. (I haven't done the technical research to see how easy or hard the actual code would be.)

Is there any update on this? Are the monetary hurdles still the gating factor? I have an idea if the author is interested. This is such a great idea - it pains me to see it languish. I'd like to help; please advise.

As a side note: I've posted a related question in the discussion group, but that group appears to be inactive. Is it?

[seamusdemora]

As a follow up, I just found a tutorial published by MS on the subject of add-ins for Outlook.

Here's the relevant passage:

Outlook Add-ins are comprised of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files, so technically the only absolute prerequisite is some sort of web server to host the files.

There's also a link to a GitHub page for the "Microsoft Office Add-in Project Generator".

[innocenzi]

Tried the markdown plugin and it has issues. Is there anything new about this issue?