Maildrop

Maildrop provides an easy way to copy emails from Mail or Entourage into Salesforce.com. Maildrop is open source, see its project home page on Google code.

Quickly Create a new case from an email.

Create an Email Activity from an email, search for who & what the email is related to.

Quickly create new contacts or leads if needed.

Upload Email attachments to the relevant records in Salesforce.com

Securely stores your Salesforce.com credentials on the Keychain.

Supports the tools you use, works with both Apple's Mail and Microsoft's Entourage.

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Requires Mac OSX 10.4.8 or later, and Mail or Entourage 2004 or latter
Works with all Salesforce editions that include activities and/or cases.
You can download Maildrop via the Download page @ Google code.

Got Feedback, questions, comments? please post them to the Apple/OSX Forum on the SuccessForce website.

Release History

v2.0, Dec 7, 2008

• New ButtonBar UI to repalce the use of the scripts menu, much much easier to use.
• Attachment support, easly upload attachments from the email to the relevant record in Salesforce.com
• 'What' searches can now return an extra field, configurable on a per object basis.
• Fix for bug where closing the window would leave Maildrop in a modal state, where you couldn't quit.
• Improved error messages from login, and more detailed tips about login in the help.
• Links to the discussion forums added.

v1.5.0, Sept 27, 2007

• The email subject now appears in the add email dialog so you can edit it before the activity gets created in Salesforce.

v1.4.0, Sept 16, 2007

• In the Add Email window, you can now press enter when entering search text to perform the search.

v1.3.5, Sept 13, 2007

• New split view window for Add Email, makes it more obvious that you can set both the Who and What relationships when adding emails, no more tabs.
• Fix for problem creating a case from the Sent folder in Mail when the to address only contains an email address.

v1.3.1, July 15, 2007

• Fix for problem adding an email from the Sent folder in Mail when the to address only contains an email address.

v1.3, April 9, 2007

• Can now create leads in addition to contacts from the add email page, the add lead/contact buttons are now much more obvious.
• The Add Email dialog is reset between emails, it no longer defaults to the last email's selections.
• Malformed search error with email addresses containing dashes is fixed.
• New menu item to reinstall the scripts (under help), and error reporting when the script install fails.
• New application icon and updated help.

v1.2, Feb 28, 2007

• Login dialog updated to better support multiple keychain entries.
• Both the Login and Add Email windows are brought to the front when activated by the scripts. (sometimes they'd get left hidden under windows)
• Adding a Sent email now defaults the Who to the address rather than the sender.
• The date for a sent email from Entourage is now picked up correctly.
• Add Email will now set the Type field on the Task to Email, if the field is not hidden by Field Level Security.

v1.01, Jan 21, 2007

• If you initially entered a wrong password, the 2nd login attempt would cause a crash (Thanks to Rupert Barrow for the report)
• If you proactively logged in via the Login option in the Maildrop menu, you would still get prompted to login the first time you tried use Maildrop.

v1.0, Jan 19, 2007

• Initial release.