SomeDude's Outlook Express for MacOS Stuff

I sometimes create what I deem to be useful things for Outlook Express and Microsoft Entourage for Macintosh.

All of these things are for use with version 5. They may work with older versions but I don't know.

If you need to contact me about any of this stuff, contact me here.




Outlook Express Menu 1.1

Outlook Express Menu is a contextual menu plug-in that provides an incredible array of features, including the following:
  • In the Finder or Sherlock, it allows you to attach any selected files or folders (!) to a new OE message. If OE is running and its current front window is a draft message window, it also allows you to attach selected files or folders to the current message.
  • With a single text file selected in the Finder or Sherlock, it also gives you options to use the text as the body of a new message or to insert the text in the current message. (This is handy for creating email templates.)
  • In other applications that provide the requisite support for contextual menus and in which you can select text, it allows you to use the selected text as the body of a new mail message or to insert the selected text in the current message.
  • With Internet Explorer 4.5 and later, it allows you control-click on links in a Web page, your Bookmarks or the History window and insert that link in the current message (if there is one) or in a new message.
  • New for version 1.1 is the ability to specially handle "mailto" links you click on in IE web pages. Version 1.1 contains one new feature and that is the ability to handle "mailto" URLs in IE web pages. With this new feature you can ctrl-click on a mailto URL in a web page and add the e-mail address(es) in that URL as a recipient to a new or else the current message. You can choose to add the address(es) in that mailto URL either as a "To:", "Cc:" or even a "Bcc:" recipient.

A version called Entourage Menu for use with Microsoft Entourage can be found HERE.

The Dutch version of OE Menu can be found HERE and the Dutch version of Entourage Menu can be found HERE.

Read the 'READ ME' file (in its entirety) to become more familiar with how cool it is and how it works.


Below are some AppleScripts I've developed for use with Outlook Express


Burst ONElist Digest

This script will burst non-standard ONElist mailing-list digests that come from the ONElist mailing-list service. These people who run this mailing list server are completely lame and follow no known standard message digest format. Feel free to yell at them.

Requirements: OE 5.0

Microsoft Entourage version of the script available HERE.



Burst Malformed Digest

This script will burst most other non-standard mailing-list digests (types that OE 5 cannot burst on its own). The bursting code in this script has been rewritten from scratch and is intended to address stack overflow errors and some crashes that have been reported by users of the "Burst Non-RFC Digest" script which I wrote earlier.

Requirements: OE 5.0, 4.5

Microsoft Entourage version of the script available HERE.



CC & Send Message Now

This script adds a user-defined email address to the Cc list of the frontmost draft window and then sends the frontmost draft window. This way it works for new messages as well as replies, forwards, redirects, anything you send. The first time you run it, it asks you what email address you want to Cc on all messages sent using the script. The script comes premapped to ctrl-K. When you want to send a message using the auto-Cc, remember to use that key command rather than clicking "Send Now" or hitting cmd-K to send it.

Requirements: OE 5.0

Microsoft Entourage version of the script available HERE.



Forward as Attachment

This script forwards all of the selected messages as attachments rather than quoting the message as the standard Forward command does. This is the same as if the user opened a new draft message window and then selected one or more messages and dragged & dropped them onto the new draft message window.

Requirements: OE 5.0

Microsoft Entourage version of the script available HERE.



Forward With All Headers

This script forwards the selected messages, but it inserts all of the message headers in the forwarded message, instead of just the "From," "Organization," "Date," "To," and "Subject" headers, as the standard Forward command does.

Requirements: OE 5.0

Microsoft Entourage version of the script available HERE.



Log Attachments

This is a package of two scripts:

Remove with Log removes attachments from selected messages and leaves log entries in the messages indicating what the attachments were. It can be used by people who wish to save their attachments manually and then eliminate them from the OE database. Using this script provides a record, at the end of the message, of the attachments that originally came in with the message.

Save & Remove with Log is similar, except it saves attachments to a user-specified folder before removing them. It can be used in conjunction with an incoming mail rule to auto-file attachments, leave a log in their accompanying message, and then delete the attachments from the OE database.

Warning: Extreme care should be exercised in the use of these scripts, since they are completely deleting information from OE's database. Use the rules at your own risk, and test them thoroughly before relying on them to work as intended.

Requirements: OE 5.0

Microsoft Entourage version of the script available HERE.



Remove HTML

This script is used to strip the HTML out of mail messages that contain both a plain-text part and an HTML part. If you don't want to see the HTML, simply run this script on a mail message and it'll turn it into plain text.

Please be sure to study the ReadMe file, because there are some limitations on how this script can be used.

Requirements: OE 5.0

Microsoft Entourage version of the script available HERE.



Messages to Disk

This script takes either the current incoming message or the currently selected messages in OE and saves them to disk. It saves them to a predetermined folder that you choose.

Requirements: OE 4.5



Nuke Messages

This script "nukes" the message in the frontmost window or selected messages in a list. Nuking a message removes it completely from the OE database - it does not pass go, collect $200, or end up in the Deleted Items folder.

The script comes premapped to ctrl-d.

As with any strategic nuclear weapon, extreme caution should be exercised in its use. There is no confirmation dialog. Once you nuke a message, it is gone for good.

Requirements: OE 5.0

Microsoft Entourage version of the script available HERE.



Progress to Front

This script brings OE 5's Progress window to the front. The included ReadMe file describes how to use the script in conjunction with Schedules so that the Progress window only comes forward when you do a manual Send & Receive by hitting cmd-M or when you first start up OE.

Requirements: OE 5.0



Reply to ALL

Will reply to everyone in a message, including both the "Reply-To" and the "From" if they are different.

Requirements: OE 4.5




If you need to contact me about any of this stuff, contact me here.