Time to pass on the torch

Since my current company does not use Mattermost, I no longer use the plugin myself and development basically stalled.

Do you want to bring new enthusiasm to outlook matters and take over active development? Comment on this issue, or contact me directly at mue dot ma at gmx dot net.

Introduction

An Outlook Add-in to forward mails to Mattermost

Installation

Make sure that Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime 2010 is installed
Download the latest binary distribution from the releases page
Unzip the release file to C:\Program Files\OutlookMatters (or any other folder where you want install the binaries)
- To update your installation to a newer version, close MS Outlook and replace the old files in the installation folder with the new version.
Double-Click file OutlookMatters.vsto to install/update the Addin.

Configuration

In Outlook right-click on any e-mail in your mail folder
From the context menu select Mattermost-> Settings... and configure
- mattermost base url (e.g. http://mattermost.some-company.com)
- team id/name (e.g. myteam)
- your email address as known to mattermost (i.e. username)
- mattermost server version
From the context menu select Mattermost-> Refresh Channels

Usage

In Outlook right-click on any e-mail in your mail folder that you want to forward to Mattermost
As new post: From the context menu select Mattermost click on the channel you want to post into
As reply: Optain the Permalink of any post in a thread of posts you want to reply to and from the context menu select Mattermost-> As Reply.... Paste the Permalink and click OK.

The contents of your mail should now appear mattermost.

Happy Posting :)

Build from Source

You'll need the following tools to build this application:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Community
Microsoft Web Developer Tools (installed via the Visual Studio Setup)
Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications 2012 Download
Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime 2010 Download
Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2015 Download

Contributing

We'd like YOU to make outlook-matters great! Be it by providing us feedback or by contributing to our codebase. There are a few guidelines that we need all contributors to follow so that we can have a chance of keeping on top of things.