I am trying to use SimpleMAPI to display a ‘write message’ dialogue with an attachment on Vista SP1 with either Windows Mail or Thunderbird in a C++ app (Borland C++ Builder 2006). I should be able to use MAPISendMail to do this.
I don’t fill in a recipient address as I expect the user to do that when the mail client displays a ‘write message’ dialog. I also don’t fill in an originator address as I expect the mail client to use the default. I have tried hardcoding them to see if thats the problem and it is not.
My code looks like this:
HINSTANCE hMAPI; LPMAPISENDMAIL pSendMail; MapiMessage message; MapiFileDesc file; ZeroMemory( &message, sizeof( MapiMessage ) ); ZeroMemory( &file, sizeof( MapiFileDesc ) ); hMAPI = LoadLibraryA( “MAPI32.DLL” ); pSendMail = (LPMAPISENDMAIL)GetProcAddress( hMAPI, “MAPISendMail” ); // setup the attachment… file.nPosition = -1; file.lpszPathName = “C:\\my_attachment.dat”; // set up the message… message.lpszSubject = “My Subject”; message.lpszNoteText = “My Message…”; message.lpszMessageType = “”; message.nRecipCount = 0; message.lpRecips = NULL; // we don’t know the recipient address(s) message.nFileCount = 1; message.lpFiles = &file; message.lpOriginator = NULL; // we don’t know the users from address dwResult = pSendMail( lhSessionNull, (DWORD)Application->Handle, &message, MAPI_LOGON_UI | MAPI_DIALOG, 0 ); if( dwResult == SUCCESS_SUCCESS ) { // …yay! Image may be NSFW.
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} else { // …we always fail here with: MAPI_E_FAILURE } It always fails with error code 2 (MAPI_E_FAILURE). What am I doing wrong?
Many thanks in advance.
c++ email mapisendmail
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This might interest you:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.win32.programmer.messaging/browse_thread/thread/a601e68b95f20609/f0b0d80c99d4eba7?lnk=gst&q=Vista+Outlook+2007#f0b0d80c99d4eba7
Have you tried the code with your email client closed?
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You have to first logon to the MAPI session
LHANDLE hMapiSession; status = lpMapiLogon(NULL, NULL, NULL, MAPI_NEW_SESSION | MAPI_LOGON_UI, 0, &hMapiSession); then, you can call SendMail(). And after that, you have to logoff again:
lpMapiLogoff(hMapiSession, NULL, 0, 0);
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message.lpRecips = NULL; // we don’t know the recipient address(s)
Try assinging lpRecips and set it’s lpszAddress to “SMTP:”
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Using similar in Delphi and discovered that it does not work from inside a thread. (Delphi TThread component) I used the exact same code and call from within the thread always failed, even though I used synchronize
