MAPI Question

[Stuart Dent (Aldente Industrial Pty Ltd)]

A few years ago I wrote an MFC app for part number control for an
Engineering company. It included some Simple Mapi functions to automatically
generate a text only mail message to notify others that the new part had
been created.

I used MAPIResolveName and MAPISendMail and everything worked fine. I didn't
need an explicit call to MAPILogon because every user had MS Exchange start
up when they logged in, an MAPI can use an implicit session.

Then last week, they changed their mail server from MS Exchange to that
ungodly Lotus Notes. It's the latest version (can't remember the Version
Number), but now all the MAPI calls fail. I have been assured by the IT Dept
that this latest version of Lotus Notes supports MAPI, but I have my doubts.
Using an explicit MAPILogon call fails too, I don't even get a mail logon
dialog box when I call it.

Can anyone confirm that Lotus Notes is now MAPI compliant. If so, what am I
doing wrong, and if Notes isn't MAPI compliant, what other method can I use
to send the mail messages (the message is just one line of text, no
attachments).

Any help to overcome this problem is most welcome (I know almost nothing
about networking and Lotus Notes).

And while I'm on the subject of Lotus Notes, if anyone needs a demonstration
of the value of standardised interface design, check out Notes. The main
screen has Toolbar Buttons rendered in three different styles, no
right-mouse popup menus, and it is impossible to tell whether a toolbar
button is enabled or not by looking at it. Only when you actually click on
it does a message box appear telling you that the function is not available,
then you have to click the OK button in the message box to close it. Status
bar information appears in the titlebar instead of down in the status bar.
I'm not saying the the Microsoft interface standard as it appears in their
style guide is perfect, but at least there is a consistency between apps.

[Brian Bathe]

I had to do integration with Notes mail 3 years ago and they said it was
MAPI compliant, I could never find anymore information on this except odd
excerpts that claimed it was MAPI compliant. I ended up using Lotus's API(I
believe it was just called the 'Lotus Notes C API Library'). The company I
did the work for had all the libraries(they were in an 'MSDN' type
arrangement) and it came with some very good examples that did what you are
talking about.

bbathe

Stuart Dent (Aldente Industrial Pty Ltd) wrote in message
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>A few years ago I wrote an MFC app for part number control for an
>Engineering company. It included some Simple Mapi functions to
automatically

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