Hi Largo84
On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 3:53:10 PM UTC, Largo84 wrote:
>
> Based on my reading of this Microsoft update
> <https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/929590>, that may no longer be
> possible for Outlook 2007 and above.
>
> Rob............
>
> On Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 4:04:40 PM UTC-5, jkn wrote:
>>
>> Hi Edward (mainly)
>>
>> Windows has a somewhat-supported and poorly documented 'outlook:'
>> protocol, which can be used with appropriate 'path' entries to do useful
>> things with Outlook-based email elements. For instance, the URL
>>
>> "outlook:00000000BB1BBDFACA3A... 84000026F87CCA0000" # elided for example
>> purposes
>>
>> on my system refers to a particular email. It takes a bit of setting up
>> to use this (see some references below), but once I have such a URL I can
>> for instance put it into the address bar in (File) Explorer and Outlook
>> will bring up the email.
>>
>> I can also do something similar with Python; both the following fragments
>> do something similar:
>>
>> PROTOCOL = "outlook:"
>> TEST_URL = "00000000BB1BBDFACA3A... 84000026F87CCA0000"
>>
>> import os
>> os.startfile(PROTOCOL + TEST_URL, 'open') # second parameter not needed
>> ?
>>
>> # and
>> import win32api
>> win32api.ShellExecute(0, 'open', PROTOCOL + TEST_URL, "", "", 0)
>>
>> Now, onto Leo. What I really want is the ability to embed such a URL in a
>> Leo node body and have the 'CTRL-click' shortcut bring up the email. That
>> is, I want the construct:
>>
>> @url outlook:00000000BB1BBDFACA3A... 84000026F87CCA0000
>> # or possibly
>> @url outlook://00000000BB1BBDFACA3A... 84000026F87CCA0000
>>
>> to work with ctrl-click.
>>
>> I have started to experiment with this but am getting errors related to
>> 'outlook protocol not supported', I think because only file:// and
>> http[s]:// are expected, (I'm looking around 'def handleUrl() in file
>> leoGlobals.py)
>>
>> I'm having a poke around here but would probably benefit from a bit of
>> guidance. Would there be any chance of getting something like this facility
>> added to Leo?
>>
>> Thanks a lot
>> Jon N
>>
>> Refs: to
>> (a) enable the 'outlook:' protocol in Windows
>> (b) have the facility in Outlook to capture the URL of an email to the
>> lipboard or similar
>> (c) invoke the URL in some way to bring up the referenced email.
>>
>> http://www.slipstick.com/problems/outlook-missing-outlook-protocol/
>>
>> http://superuser.com/questions/834019/using-outlook-protocol-open-current-instance-of-outlook-not-new-instance
>>
>>
>> http://www.davidtan.org/create-hyperlinks-to-outlook-messages-folders-contacts-events/
>>
>> http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/using-outlook-links/
>>
>>
Well, it works with me (as I say, having gone through some hoops) with
Outlook 2010. IIRC I had to:
1) add a registry entry to enable the outlook: protocol # not sure where
this 'enabling' is done...
2) enable macros in Outlook
3) write an Outlook macro to allow me to copy the URL of a mail item to the
clipboard
I then did:
a) copy the URL of an email to the clipboard, using the above macro
b) paste the URL from the clipboard in the format
""outlook:00000000BB1B..." as above
c) use this in the python snippets as above; the email is brought up in a
new window, hurrah
So I now want to be able to turn step ( c ) into "ctrl-click on an outlook:
URL entry in a node" within Leo.
Regards
Jon N
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