Thread: Outlook Express Email Plugin- Re-Release!

I do have that sorted like that. But what I meant was have it show the read skin first, then if you wanted to browse through them, have them show in an ilist on a different skin...

This is kinda funny (well for Hotmail users anyway).

Finally someone starts developing an OE integration for RR, (TY Sonic BTW!) and Microsoft jams LiveMail down your throat by cancelling OE support for Hotmail.

This was in my Hotmail box (checked with OE) today. Looks like June 30th is D-Day for alot of programs, isn't that when XP will no longer be sold?

Dear Microsoft Outlook Express customer,

Thank you for using Microsoft® Outlook® Express. Our information indicates that you use Outlook Express to access a Windows Live™ Hotmail® e-mail account via a protocol called DAV (Distributed Authoring and Versioning protocol). DAV, like POP3 or IMAP, is the way that a mail client communicates with a web-based mail server.

As a valued customer, we want to provide advanced notice that as of June 30, 2008, Microsoft is disabling the DAV protocol and you will no longer be able to access your Hotmail Inbox via Outlook Express. As an alternative, we recommend that you download Windows Live Mail, a free desktop e-mail client that has the familiarity of Outlook Express and much more. This next generation of free e-mail software will allow you to easily manage multiple e-mail accounts—including Windows Live Hotmail, plus other e-mail accounts that support POP3/IMAP. Better yet, Windows Live Mail integrates well with other Windows Live services, and downloads in minutes. After you provide your user name and password, you will automatically be linked to your Hotmail account, providing continued access to your email and contacts.

We encourage you to download Windows Live Mail at http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview.

And, to make your transition smoother, we've provided answers to frequently asked questions below.

Again, thank you for your use of Outlook Express and we are confident that you'll be just as delighted with the new Windows Live Mail.

Your Windows Live Mail team

lol yea i got that too.. its just an effort to convert over to live mail when it comes down to it. I'll soon be ditching hotmail altogether and making several gmail accounts lol.

Originally Posted by quantum

This is kinda funny (well for Hotmail users anyway).

Finally someone starts developing an OE integration for RR, (TY Sonic BTW!) and Microsoft jams LiveMail down your throat by cancelling OE support for Hotmail.

That's part of the reason I started working on this:

Originally Posted by monkeyracer

Some screenshots of what I've been working on:

Main WLive window, showing folders, messages, etc


Message in full view for easier reading:


Replying to a message:


Compose New Message:


Still to come with this: getting the contacts to sync up right, getting the OSK to work with this, applying these methods to Outlook for other email systems.

This works a lot like OE, it's free, and I've got the thing almost completely embedded. (But not in the way this plug in will integrate with RR.)

Any release date yet? Another cool plugin that I am looking forward to.

Thanks,

no official release date. I'm working on the real-time text box plugin now. Its pretty vital to the success of this plugin and other ones i have written. Once i have got a bug free version of that available i'll put it into this code and have a release ready.

decided to renew this project a little bit.. attempting to make it easier to use in a carpc environment. I have added message preview and a few other things. I'm having some formatting issues as expected considering its being done via custom list.. but there's more to come!

another updated.. i've got the format for the custom list working ONLY with monospace fonts. There's just no other feasible way to handle 3 datasets with a single list. So from here on out this will be the initial RRMail screen... allowing you from here to reply to messages, create a new messages, or delete messages from the list and from the server. If someone would like to modify this skin or create a base skin (no png for test skin purposes) i'd REALLY appreciate it

I took a few minutes (ok.. a few hours) of my time to create a new test skin today...

RRMail "List" screen




RRMail "Read" screen