This is a package for GNU/Emacs that let you send HTML emails from Emacs, and they will look exactly as they were sent from Microsoft Outlook with all fancy HTML formatting that Outlook does.

It works on Linux and does not use Outlook, so you no longer need a Windows box to be able to communicate with your co-workers who use Outlook.

Requirements

• GNU/Emacs 25.3 compiled with libxml2 (other versions are not tested)
• mu4e package (can be installed from your distribution package manager)

Description

The package provides functions to format a plain-text reply and insert it into HTML email with a proper “Outlook-style” quotation (i.e. whole email thread at the bottom).

outlook.el is meant to be used together with other email packages for Emacs, extending their functionality. As for now, only mu4e integration is supported out-of-box, but feel free to submit a PR with integration to other packages (gnus, wanderlust, notmuch, etc.)

Mu4e

To integrate outlook.el with mu4e package you have to (require 'outlook-mu4e) and invoke outlook-mu4e-message-finalize function during email reply composition.

It will replace message body with HTML code that you can send by C-c C-c. Note, that you can (and actually should) preview the message by calling outlook-mu4e-html-message-preview to view it in a web-browser.

This package is in beta quality, so make sure you PREVIEW the message before actually sending it, to avoid sending garbage to your co-workers!

Customization

outlook-organization-domain-regexp

Set this variable to check that recipients email addresses belong to your organization domain. Otherwise you will be asked for a confirmation before sending a mail.

This variable only works if message-mode is used for composing a message (this is true for mu4e, but may be different for other mail packages).

Example:

(setq outlook-organization-domain-regexp "fsf\\.org")
    

Features still in development (sorted by priority)

• [X] support plain-text emails in Outlook style
• [ ] calendar support, synchronization with Org-mode
• [ ] compose initial email in HTML
• [ ] send HTML-formatted reply using Org-mode HTML export

Bugs

• [ ] handle HTML emails not in outlook format (e.g. sent from other HTML-capable MUA).
• [ ] embedded images are lost for reply.

Screenshot

ChangeLog

0.2

• Added support for plain-text emails in Outlook style. outlook-mu4e-message-finalize will use either plain-text, or HTML style for reply quotation.
• Added outlook-organization-domain-regexp to warn if email is going to be sent outside of your organization.
• Bugfix around outlook--html-find-insert-pt.

0.1

Initial release. Only HTML emails are supported.