michaelsanford / Walled-Garden-for-Outlook

A compliance Add-in for Microsoft Outlook to analyse sender lists for recipients outside your organization.

Walled-Garden Add-in for Outlook

A compliance Add-in for Microsoft Outlook to analyse sender lists for recipients outside your organization.

How it Works

The Add-In will extract the sender's (From: ) organization domain to match it against all recipients.

When the email is Sent, all Recipients - in To: , CC: and BCC: - will be matched against the sender's domain.

Any recipient whose domain does not match the sender's will trigger a popup, listing each "outsider" recipient and confirming if the messgae should be send anyway.

Answering No will return to the compose window.

Answering Yes will release the message.

Installing

1. Go to Releases and choose the Latest.
2. Download the Zip and validate the checksum.
3. Run setup.exe
4. Restart Outlook to load the Add-in

Troublehooting

1. Open Outlook
2. Ensure there is no yellow warning under Slow and Disabled COM Add-ins. You can re-enable it there.
3. Navigate to File > Options (bottom-left, above Exit) > Add-ins
4. Ensure "Walled Garden for Outlook" is installed and not disabled.

ℹ️ If Outlook has disabled this add-in on your system because it was flagged as being slow to start, please file a bug.

Uninstalling

From Windows

1. Press Start
2. Type "Add or remove programs"
3. Search for "Walled Garden for Outlook"
4. Choose it and select Uninstall.

Forcing Removal in Outlook

If you have installed this Add-in using a Release package (ran a setup.exe) use the above method instead.

1. Open Outlook
2. Navigate to File > Options (bottom-left, above Exit) > Add-ins
3. Choose Manage: COM Add-ins and click Go.
4. Choose "Walled Garden for Outlook" and click Remove.
5. Restart Outlook.

Contributing

I welcome contributions and bug reports; please file an issue.

Attributions

Add-in icon courtesy bitfreak86