How to have custom mail forms integrated to Outlook?

[MeAgin]

Hi all,



This is my first assignment with Outlook. Therefore please bear my mistakes.



We have a web based project collaboration system and now we are planning to
integrate mails originated from our system with Office Outlook. Where users
can receive our mails to separate folder along with their personnel mails
and can reply from the same interface. Still the system is in the scratch
books. I searched through the web and found so many resources. Virtually I'm
lost to find a starting point.

I would be grateful if any of u can advise me where I should start looking
at.



Thanks in advance.

Nadeera

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

A good place to start would be explain:

-- whether you're talking about standardized email messages or actual custom Outlook forms

-- what mail environment is involved (Exchange, POP3, IMAP)

-- what kind of interaction users will have

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[MeAgin]

Hi,


Our current plan is as follows,



1.. We want to keep the look and feel of MS outlook as it is. This is the
environment users are familiar and they don’t want to change it.
2.. For our system mails a different folder will be maintained and all the
correspondences will be done within that.
3.. Our mails forms have all the data captured in Outlook forms and some
more additional data. So along with default data some more additional data
will be captured. For this I think we will have to use Outlook forms.
4.. When the mail is saving the data will be saved using our existing Web
Service. When loading a mail also the data will be downloaded via the Web
Service.
Thanks in advance.



Best regards,

Nadeera





A good place to start would be explain:

-- whether you're talking about standardized email messages or actual custom
Outlook forms

-- what mail environment is involved (Exchange, POP3, IMAP)

-- what kind of interaction users will have

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You say "mail," but are users actually going to be sending email messages as part of your application? It's not clear that they are, given your statements that all the interaction will take place using the web service. If users are not going to actually send messages, then the application should be using custom post forms, not custom mail forms. If they are, then your mail environment is extremely relevant, as I indicated earlier.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers