Affixa V3.2014.08.13 Gmail Error 400 With Multiple To or Cc recipients

[Brian Seymour]

I have developed an application which uses MAPI to create an email on Gmail via Affixa, it was working fine on V3.2014.05.14.

I had uninstalled Affixa to work on other projects and today I installed Affixa V3.2014.08.13 and now, when I run my application with multiple To or Cc recipients, I get the error "The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request." which appears once the "Creating your message.." progress bar is filled.

To clarify, the emails are generated when there is only one recipient in either (or both) the To and Cc addresses but not not when there is more than one recipient in either the To or Cc address fields.

Has anyone else had this problem and if so know how I can resolve it?

Thanks in advance.

[Chris Wood]

Hi Brian,

How Affixa works under the hood has changed a bit in the latest version to use Gmail’s new API.

Can you let me know how your code is setting the recipient lines? I.e. what should it look like? E.g.

To: Bob Jones <b...@jones.com>

or 

To: b...@jones.com; ma...@jones.com

or

To: b...@jones.com, ma...@jones.com

or

To: Jones, Bob <b...@jones.com>

etc..

Thanks!

Chris

[Brian Seymour]

Hello Chris

An example of an email which we previously generated successfully is shown in the attachment.

The code to generate the email is written in VB6 and uses the "Microsoft MAPI Controls". Each address is individually added to a collection of addresses with the code shown below.

With mpmMessage

   For iArrayIndex = LBound(strToAddress) To UBound(strToAddress)

         If .RecipCount > 0 Then

            .RecipIndex = .RecipCount

         End If

         .RecipAddress = "sm...@jones.com"

         .RecipDisplayName = "sm...@jones.com"

         .RecipType = mapToList

   Next

   For iArrayIndex = LBound(strCCAddress) To UBound(strCCAddress)

         If .RecipCount > 0 Then

            .RecipIndex = .RecipCount

         End If

         .RecipAddress = "sm...@jones.com"

         .RecipDisplayName = "sm...@jones.com"

         .RecipType = mapCcList

      End If

   Next

   .ResolveName

End With

Thanks.

[Chris Wood]

Thanks Brian - just sent an email to you to follow this up.

Will post back here if it shows up any problems.

Chris

[Chris Wood]

Hi there,

Brian and I worked together to debug what he was seeing whereby an error occurred if more than one recipient was specified on a "to" line.

It turns out that this is related to a problem with the Gmail API itself rather than Affixa. For those of a technical background, here's the detail:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25398101/user-drafts-reference-errorinvalid-to-header

Hopefully this should just magically start working again very soon when the Gmail people fix it on their side.

All the best,

Chris