Add activity to reply to an e-mail in Outlook

[yg1988]

Hi mighty automagicians,

The current send_mail from outlook only allowing sending back a new message. Could you please add a 'reply' feature? On our client side, it seems possible to use send_mail to do a reply by manipulating the email body by adding the delimiting information. But it would be so much cleaner and nicer if the library can pact the logic together somehow.

Thanks,
G

[koenvaneijk]

While this is seemingly trivial, it's actually quite difficult from an API-perspective.

To be able to send the instruction to Outlook to reply to a specific e-mail, the bot somehow needs to identify the exact e-mail in Outlook by its GUID. This would make the usage of the Automagica activity really complex. Even moving beyond that point the Outl;ook object model simply does not allow you to do this in a robust way.

Would it be an option to include the HTML/text from the e-mail your replying to at the bottom of the e-mail you are sending? This might be a workaround which is actual quite practical to do.