http://disgruntled-programmer.com/notes/emacs-with-outlook.html

• Tcl installed and working (see http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActiveTcl/)
• NTEmacs installed and working (see http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/latest/)
• Outlook installed and working (If you don't already have Outlook then think yourself lucky ;-) )

• put the outlookedit.el lisp file somewhere in your load-path and add a (require 'outlookedit) into your .emacs file
• place the two Tcl scripts onto your system and edit the locations in the outlookedit.el file

• select a message in Outlook and click "Reply" (or "Reply to all" etc.)
• switch to your NTEmacs window and press C-c o e (that is Control-C followed by "o" then "e" - mnemonic: Outlook Edit)
• the message text should now appear in an Emacs buffer
• edit in the emacs buffer
• press C-c o s (mnemonic Outlook Save)
• the edited text should now replace the text in the outlook window
• (optionally) select "Format->Plain Text" to switch the message format back to plain text (see Known issues below for an explanation)
• press Send as usual

• Outlook 2000 (contrary to its documentation) renders the edited message as Rich Text regardless of the original format or the users specified preferred format. Outlook 2002 is reported to fix this by introducing a BodyFormat parameter.
• If you change the configuration of active Outlook windows between grabbing the text and saving it back to Outlook you will probably overwrite the wrong text. You have been warned! Don't blame me!

 ;;; outlookedit.el
 ;; use a couple of Tcl scripts to invoke my Tcl scripts to do COM
 ;; related actions on Outlook to get and replace text in the
 ;; reply/compose boxes allowing it to be edited in Emacs
 ;;
 (defvar mno-get-outlook-body
   "tclsh C:\\Userdata\\Tcl\\grabOutlookMessage.tcl")
 (defvar mno-put-outlook-body
   "tclsh C:\\Userdata\\Tcl\\putMessageInOutlook.tcl")
 (defvar mno-outlook-default-justification 'full)

 (global-set-key "\C-coe" 'mno-edit-outlook-message)
 (global-set-key "\C-cos" 'mno-save-outlook-message)

 (defun mno-edit-outlook-message ()
   "* Slurp an outlook message into a new buffer ready for editing

 The message must be in the active Outlook window.  Typically the
 user would press the Reply or Reply-all button in Outlook then
 switch to Emacs and invoke \\[mno-edit-outlook-message]

 Once all edits are done, the function mno-save-outlook-message
 (invoked via \\[mno-save-outlook-message]) can be used to send the
 newly edited text back into the Outlook window.  It is important that
 the same Outlook window is current in outlook as was current when the
 edit was started when this command is invoked."
   (interactive)
   (save-excursion
     (let ((buf (get-buffer-create "*Outlook Message*"))
          (body (shell-command-to-string mno-get-outlook-body)))
       (switch-to-buffer buf)
       (message-mode) ; enables automagic reflowing of text in quoted
                      ; sections
       (setq default-justification mno-outlook-default-justification)
       (setq body (replace-regexp-in-string "\r" "" body))
       (delete-region (point-min) (point-max))
       (insert body)
       (goto-char (point-min)))))

 (defun mno-save-outlook-message ()
   "* Send the outlook message buffer contents back to Outlook current window

 Unfortunately, Outlook 2000 then renders this text as Rich Text format
 rather than plain text, overriding any user preference for plain text.
 The user then needs to select Format->Plain text in the outlook
 compose window to reverse this.

 Outlook 2002 apparently has a BodyFormat parameter to control this."
   (interactive)
   (save-excursion
     (let ((buf (get-buffer "*Outlook Message*")))
       (set-buffer buf)
       (shell-command-on-region (point-min) (point-max) mno-put-outlook-body)
       (set-buffer-modified-p 'nil) ; now kill-buffer won't complain!
       (kill-buffer "*Outlook Message*"))))

 (provide 'outlookedit)
 ;;;end of file outlookedit.el

 #!/bin/sh
 # Emacs please open this in -*-Tcl-*- mode
 # do not remove this backslash! -> \
     exec tclsh $1 ${1+"$@"}
 #
 # loosely based on Python code from
 # http://disgruntled-programmer.com/notes/emacs-with-outlook.html
 #
 package require tcom

 set body [read stdin]
 #
 # find Outlook:-
 if { [catch {::tcom::ref getactiveobject Outlook.Application} o] } {
     puts "Couldn't find Outlook via COM: $o"
     exit 1
 }
 # get the current item:-
 if { [catch {$o -get ActiveInspector} a] } {
     puts "Couldn't get the ActiveInspector for Outlook via COM: $a"
     exit 2
 }
 if { [catch {$a -get CurrentItem} i] } {
     puts "Couldn't get the CurrentItem for Outlook via COM: $i"
     exit 3
 }
 # and finally replace its body
 if { [catch {$i -set Body $body} err] } {
     puts "Couldn't replace the Body via COM: $err"
     exit 4
 }
 # The following (untested) might convert back from RTF in Outlook 2002
 catch {$i -set BodyFormat 1}
 # that's it

 #!/bin/sh
 # Emacs please open this in -*-Tcl-*- mode
 # do not remove this backslash! -> \
     exec tclsh $1 ${1+"$@"}
 #
 # loosely based on Python code from
 # http://disgruntled-programmer.com/notes/emacs-with-outlook.html
 #
 package require tcom
 #
 # find Outlook:-
 if { [catch {::tcom::ref getactiveobject Outlook.Application} o] } {
     puts "Couldn't find Outlook via COM: $o"
     exit 1
 }
 # get the current item:-
 if { [catch {$o -get ActiveInspector} a] } {
     puts "Couldn't get the ActiveInspector for Outlook via COM: $a"
     exit 2
 }
 if { [catch {$a -get CurrentItem} i] } {
     puts "Couldn't get the CurrentItem for Outlook via COM: $i"
     exit 3
 }
 # and finally slurp its body
 if { [catch {$i -get Body} body] } {
     puts "Couldn't retrieve body from CurrentItem via COM: $body"
     exit 4
 }
 #
 # spew it out to stdout
 #
 puts $body
 # that's it

    c:\emacs\bin\gnudoit.exe (mno-edit-outlook-message)

 Sub mnoEditInEmacs()
     Shell ("C:\userdata\emacs-21.3\bin\gnudoit.exe (mno-edit-outlook-message)")
 End Sub

    Shell ("C:\emacs-21.3\bin\gnudoit.exe (progn (mno-edit-outlook-message) (select-frame-set-input-focus (selected-frame)))")

    if { [catch {$a -method Activate} err] } {
        puts "Couldn't Activate Inspector via COM: $err"
        exit 5
    }

 Sub mnoEditInEmacs()
 ' Ernie Longmire, 17 Feb 2005
 ' http://www.studio-nibble.com/

     Dim itmCur As Object
     Dim intFmt As Integer
     Dim strFmt As String
     Dim intRes As Integer

     Set itmCur = Outlook.Application.ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
     intFmt = itmCur.BodyFormat

     If intFmt <> olFormatPlain Then

         If intFmt = olFormatRichText Then
             strFmt = "rich text"
         ElseIf intFmt = olFormatHTML Then

             'HTML messages store the full text of the body with HTML
             '   markup in a separate string, MailItem.HTMLBody.  In these
             '   messages MailItem.Body contains a version of the message
             '   with HTML markup removed.

             'When editing an HTML message, .Body is not synchronized with
             '   .HTMLBody until .Body is accessed directly in some way.
             '   In these cases, changing .BodyFormat to olFormatPlain puts
             '   the empty .Body string in the editing buffer, discarding the
             '   actual message content.  That's why we explicitly reference
             '   .Body below.

             strFmt = itmCur.Body
             strFmt = "HTML"
         Else
             strFmt = "other"
         End If

         intRes = MsgBox("This will convert the message to plain text format." + vbCrLf + "All " + strFmt + " formatting will be lost.", vbOKCancel + vbExclamation, "Conversion Warning")
         If intRes = vbOK Then
             itmCur.BodyFormat = Outlook.olFormatPlain
         Else
             Exit Sub
         End If
     End If

     Shell ("C:\emacs-21.3\bin\gnudoit.exe (progn (mno-edit-outlook-message) (select-frame-set-input-focus (selected-frame)))")

 End Sub

     Shell ("C:\Progra~1\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.19\i586-pc-win32\gnuclient.exe -e (progn (mno-edit-outlook-message) (focus-frame (selected-frame)))")

 (message-mode); .....
 (local-set-key "\C-x#" 'mno-save-outlook-message)

 (defvar mno-get-outlook-body
   "tclsh C:/usr/share/Tcl/scripts/grabOutlookMessage.tcl")
 (defvar mno-put-outlook-body
   "tclsh C:/usr/share/Tcl/scripts/putMessageInOutlook.tcl")

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