New Outlook Add-In store mail to network drive

Overstep2873-1631 0 Reputation points
2025-02-03T15:04:27.3166667+00:00

Hello everyone,

I want to create a outlook mail add-in for the new outlook that allows users to store mails to a network share.

We have a running com-addin that provides this feature but since outlook classic will become deprecated sometimes my boss told me to re-write the add-in.

I did work trough the outlook add-in quickstart guide but since javascript and web development is completely new for me I have some questions:

  1. Is it even possible to store mails locally with an add-in? At least the function is present in the current new outlook client. The add-in does only need to work on company PCs, not on smartphones.
  2. The old add-in had some user defined paths where the mail got stored too. Those paths could be saved as custom data as mentioned in this link?
  3. Is it possible to hand over paths to the save mail dialog?

Maybe someone here can help me out :) I am really interested in becoming better at programming so I guess this a nice task for me.

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