Adding emails to Salesforce when on a Mac

Last Updated on Thursday, 1 February 2007 11:48 Written by Steve Wednesday, 24 January 2007 02:58

Simon Fell, the brains behind the Salesforce.com API, has created a tool called Maildrop which:

provides the ability to take emails and create Case or Activity in Salesforce (ala Outlook edition). It works with both Apple’s Mail and Microsoft’s Entourage.

If you use either of these two mail apps, I’m sure this could make getting communications into Salesforce.com much easier for you.
Update: Maildrop now available on Appexchange.

6 Comments

1. Brooks Jordan   |  Monday, 29 January 2007 at 4:57 pm

   I’m so excited about this, I’m letting out a yelp – whoo! I’ve been waiting for someone to do this for three years. I just posted my first email from my Mail client on OSX and it works like a charm. Thank YOU, Simon.

   
2. Steve   |  Monday, 29 January 2007 at 5:13 pm

   Yeah, Simon rocks. Check his site. You may also like his Trapdoor app.

   
3. Brooks Jordan   |  Tuesday, 30 January 2007 at 2:39 pm

   I’ve been using Maildrop all day, and it’s really the greatest thing since sliced bread. It sounds silly, but I want to pay someone – at least hug someone! But I’ll just post a comment on your blog instead.

   
4. Steve   |  Tuesday, 30 January 2007 at 5:17 pm

   Really, all the love should go to directly Simon Fell but his blog doesn’t allow comments…

   
5. Bruno   |  Thursday, 15 February 2007 at 3:35 pm

   I’m afraid I can’t figure out something. I have followed all required steps but in the script menue I cannot find the item “Add email in Salesforce” nor “Create a Case in Salesforce”. I have enabled, as asked, the script menu.
   Anybody can help? Thx a lot

   
6. Simon Fell   |  Friday, 23 February 2007 at 10:00 am

   Bruno, please post your issue to the macforce mailing list (groups.yahoo.com/group/macforce) ideally with a screen shot of the contents of your scripts menu when Mail is the active app. Thanks, Simon