[CLUE-Tech] off-topic: Win2000 MAPI question

[ian]

Oh come on.. Now this is just getting foolish.  This is the same thing
that MS does officially.. FUD.  Most of the time they want to have
a minimal level of competition.  The official new API as of last year
is to use the mailto: protocol configuration.  that's about as well
documented as you can get.  You put some stuff in the registry and then
away you go.. You immediately have your app being mailto: friendly.

As much as we give MS crap about doing things to make it more difficult
to compete (which is usually true) they do publish their APIs and then
simply implement first.  Other companies tend to sit on their asses 
when it comes to implementing new standards.. 

That's where they get beat usually.  

MAPI wasn't done right the first time.  It required you to replace the
MAPI.dll file to get your program to work MAPI.  That was sad, pathetic
and poor design at best.  

ian



On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:06:21PM -0700, grant wrote:
> Download Eudora Light.  It is freeware (although the new one has ads) and
> it supports MAPI.  From what I hear from my spies internal to the evil
> empire, MAPI was too well documented, and used by too many pieces of
> software, and therefore presented an oportunity for those other pieces of
> software to be a competitive threat.  Expect a new API to replace it in
> the near future, but expect it to be compatible with fewer things.
> 
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