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Yasoon – Get your favourite app for Outlook

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8 pointsmnkypete11 comments

I love the idea and I really want to click the download button and start coding my interface between all the stuff that we use and outlook but I am very wary of letting anything touch my business email. Is there any data sent to any server? if yes, what and why?

Thanks!

We are trying to be transparent about that - so the following is also mentioned in the installer wizard :)

TLDR; We are not sending any(!) data of your inbox to our servers. And we will never do!

When you install yasoon, there is a little registration wizard at the beginning which will register an account at our server. This is simpy to confirm that you are the owner of your e-mail address (we are sending an automated registration email afterwards). In addition, you can give a small profile which will make the UI a little more user friendly (profile image, etc.). This is also transferred to our server. However, this is completly optional and is currently not used anywhere. We may offer some collaboration features in the future, but this will also be opt-in to share your profile.

Besides that, we only log some serious errors which occur in our runtime, but we never send any data of your inbox out! No e-mail data, no tasks, no calendar items!

//Edit: In addition, the remote logging is disabled when you turn on the Dev mode, because we are only interested in production errors.

Any plans to support Outlook 2011 (on Mac)?

Hi,

I'm one of the founders of yasoon - unfortunately Microsoft does not offer any kind of API for Outlook on Mac. This makes it quite impossible to implement this.

In the long term we may provide something like this as an standalone app or an extension for Apple Mail - which ironically allows plugins.

Thanks for the quick reply. That's what I was afraid of. I know Excel for Mac's macro functionality is pretty sparse compared to the Windows version. I think this is cool - just not worth running a VM all the time.

Best of luck. Hack the planet!

Indeed you can extend Outlook for Mac getting the objective-c classes and methods from the application itself. Then you need to inject your plugin and manipulate those objects.

It works in the same way than an Apple Mail plugin except that you need to do the process injection.

Thanks for the tip! We will look into it for sure! By any chance, do you have any resources on this topic available? When I researched this a while ago there was little to none information and all sources stated that it's impossible..

Yes, I am on vacations right now but will be back to the office on February and can compile some resources for you.

Hey I'm interested by some docs too if you find the time !

My address in in my profile.

I'll copy the e-mail to both.

Great, thank you!

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