Outlook

Outlook is Microsoft’s (in)famous e-mail client, which is closely coupled to Exchange. Despite several promises, its Mac OS X counterpart, Entourage, isn’t half as functional.

Outlook 11 (or 2003) was one of the first e-mail clients to sport search folders (a feature soon replicated across the board).

Tools

.pst and Migration Utilitiies:

• libpst, a library that can read PST files (there’s a migration HOWTO for those of you not afraid of using the command-line on the Mac).
• PST Reader
• ol2mbox
• Outlook Redemption

E-Mail Management

• Xobni – forget everything else, this is the good stuff.
• Outclass (now mostly updated, requires POPfile)
• Duplicate E-Mail Remover
• Lookout – lightning-fast item and attachment indexing, recently subsumed into Windows indexing services (also does filesystem indexing).
  • Installation in Outlook 2007 (sent in by Nuno Brito)

Calendaring and Sync

• Google Calendar Sync

Resources:

Using the new RPC – HTTP proxying feature:

• Configuring Outlook 2003 for RPC over HTTP
• Configuring the Outlook 2003 RPC over HTTP Client – links to required Exchange configurations
• Outlook 2003 Performs Slowly or Stops Responding When Connected to Exchange Server 2003 Through HTTP

Coding:

• Using Python, Jython, and Lucene to Search Outlook Email
• Niobe, a .NET framework for developing Outlook add-ins.
• Outlook Spy