"Richard Jenkins" <Richard(at)nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> It requires the MAPI library to be configured properly on a computer
> (which does not seems to be always the case).
Most of the major email programs support MAPI. It is a standardlized
API.
> It is not on my computer and when I try to send a message, I get an
error message:
>
> "You don't have a Simple MAPI compatible mailer installed."
There is nothing you can do about that then.
> However, I have several programs on my computer that are able to
> correctly connnect to my default email program (eudora) just like a
> MAPI call would do. How are they doing this?
SimpleMapi/MAPI is the only standard way to do that without using
mailer-specific code. Maybe Eudora is exporting something extra that
those applications are specifically looking for, who knows.
Gambit
