I made use of these outlook urls with leo a long time ago. I didn't
integrate it into leo urls. Instead I just setup a few keyboard shortcuts.
# This command copies outlook link of current selected email into the body
at the current insertion point
import win32com.client
@g.command("insert-outlook-email-link")
def insertOutlookEmailLink(event):
c=event['c']
ol = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application")
m = ol.ActiveExplorer().Selection.Item(1)
u = "outlook:%s <MESSAGE: %s>" % (m.EntryID, m.Subject)
w = c.frame.body.bodyCtrl
i = w.getInsertPoint()
w.insert(i,u)
# This command will launch the outlook url (the url text must be selected):
import subprocess
@g.command("open-selected-outlook-link")
def openSelectedOutlookLink (event):
c = event['c']
r = c.frame.body.getSelectionRange()
url = c.frame.body.get(r[0], r[1])
# The dos 'start' command understands outlook urls
subprocess.Popen("cmd /k start " + url)
These were my shortcuts:
insert-outlook-email-link = Ctrl-Shift-O
open-selected-outlook-link = Ctrl-Shift-J
Not what you were after as it looks like you already figured out most of
the above, but I thought I'd share in case it helps.
Brian
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:22 AM, jkn <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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