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Mini Outlook Inbox (and More) - v3.0.1
Mini Outlook Inbox (and More) - v3.0.1
(31 customer ratings)
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Ben
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Your Inbox messages on your sidebar. Read your email from the sidebar via a flyout. You don't even need to have Outlook open! Incudes the ability to create, reply delete, and forward email. Clicking a message header displays the message body in a flyout.

Some instances of Outlook will dispay a security warning asking for permission to get the sender and body of the message. There is a workaround add-in at mapilab.com/outlook/security/. That lets you supress these warnings.

This one can practically replace Outlook's email capabilities, no more need to keep it open.

v3.0 - Added appointments and tasks marquees so you can have an all-in one outlook experience. Let me know what you think.

******IMPORTANT*******
To view the "Unread Mail" or other search folder, you must select that folder in Outlook, then click the bottom right button in the gadget.
Details and Requirements
Operating system:Windows Vista
Other:Outlook 2000, XP, 2003, or 2007
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davis_bj
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
Love it
Appointments - Fix (1/22/2008)
First off, I just want to say what a GREAT sidebar. Which prompted me to look into the Appointments issue. So I just thought i would share what i found as to what will fix the appointments section. It is a minor fix. File: Gadget.Html Line 184: Orignal: appointmentFolder=outlookObj.GetDefaultFolder(9); Correction: appointmentsFolder=outlookObj.GetDefaultFolder(9); Also, there is another typo on the function ScrollMarquees(). Line: 706 Original: pasue=true; Correction: pause=true; Thought this might help others who alos would like this feture to work. Thanks for a Great Sidebar App.
Soloart98
3 of 4 people found this review helpful
Don't like it
Problems with Vista Security (5/23/2008)
I keep getting a very irritating message "An application is attempting to access address in your email program....... It only allows access for 10 minutes so I would have to keep clicking this stupid button all day. I had to uninstall the gadget.
Trunk_z
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
Love it
Awesome (2/24/2008)
Really like it. davis_bj's fix works well, the file that needs to be changed can be found here: C:\Users\USER NAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets\MiniInbox.gadget\ Only other thing I would like to see would be perhaps a calender flyout or something to that effect?
kytigerwolf
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Like it
Great Gadget (11/7/2007)
I am enjoying your gadget. However, the scrolling appointments and to-do list is annoying. I like what one person suggested. Please add a button to the gadget to allow switching from one to the next. Otherwise, I would say remove them from this gadget. Just a suggestion. Past that, great work from what I have seen so far. Thanks!
Pecster1
0 of 1 people found this review helpful
Hate it
no tasks or appointments (1/9/2008)
It lasted 10 seconds in my computer because without the calendar and tasks working it's not useful to me.
Gerri_13
0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Love it
little bugs (8/13/2009)
i found another little bug which occurrs if there are no tasks. to fix it edit the line 658: toDoItems.innerHTML="0 to do items"; to toDoDiv.innerHTML="0 to do items"; other bugs: line 184 change appointmentFolder=outlookObj.GetDefaultFolder(9); to appointmentsFolder=outlookObj.GetDefaultFolder(9); Line 706 change pasue=true; to pause=true;
snowspeeder7
0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Don't like it
bad (8/5/2009)
too big
FazZ_filmz
0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Love it
Fantastic! Windows 7 and Office 2010 (7/15/2009)
I'm a heavy beta tester with random stuff and this little Side Bar app works on W7 x64 and with Office 2010 x64 too! I think you just need to make some choices for different skins/colours and it will be perfect!!! 4.5/5
Calvin3663
0 of 0 people found this review helpful
It's okay
Email works nicely but has bugs (4/3/2009)
Good.... - Able to view emails, appointments & tasks without launching outlook program. - The gadget can be configured to check for new emails every specified intervals - Able to compose new email by clicking on the embeded New Message button Bad....has several bugs. - The program does not read my appointments (showing 0 appointments while there're few appointments in my outlook). - The "Go to the folder that's selected in Outlook" is not working - The read email form does not display pictures and attachement in the emails. - Also, had to click once on the read email form before you could click on the reply, close, and other buttons. - Relatively slow loading time compared to the other Sidebar Gadgets Conclusion... One of the best Outlook Gadget available to date (even better than the gadget provided by Microsoft Office Team). However, there're some bugs that needed fixing to be fully functional.
PrinceNbingNbong
0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Love it
Very nice! (2/12/2009)
This really does work quite nicely. Yes, you will get prompted with security messages from Outlook a lot initially, but installing MapiLab's "Advanced Security for Outlook" solves that. Nice to see something that makes the sidebar genuinely useful!