Accessing outlook email from another program
 

Hi,

I have written a software package for the wine industry, and one thing that my
clients have asked for is to be able to bulk email their clients from within my
product. So, instead of writing a full-fledged email client, I decided instead
to allow them to write their emails, select the recipients from within my
program, and then to use MAPI to open the default email client on their machine.

The problem is Outlook, if Outlook is their default email client, it seems to
choke on sending the emails. However, if Thunderbird is the default (which it is
on mine) there is no problem sending the email. I've reduced the maximum number
of recipients to 99 per email (if they have more than that, it opens a number of
compose windows, one for each group of 99 recipients. I also tried the setup
with Eudora, and it too works fine.

I understand that Outlook does have some built in security to prevent viruses
from using it to spread them, but I am actually bringing up compose windows
which the client then has to send manually.

Does anyone have any ideas for working around this problem?

PS. my software is written with Borland Delphi 6 Enterprise.

Thanks.

--
Harald

Accessing outlook email from another program
 

Harald wrote:

I have written a software package for the wine industry, and one
thing that my clients have asked for is to be able to bulk email
their clients from within my product. So, instead of writing a
full-fledged email client, I decided instead to allow them to write
their emails, select the recipients from within my program, and then
to use MAPI to open the default email client on their machine.

The problem is Outlook, if Outlook is their default email client, it
seems to choke on sending the emails.

Define "choke".
--
Brian Tillman

Accessing outlook email from another program
 

"Brian Tillman" wrote in message
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Harald wrote:

I have written a software package for the wine industry, and one
thing that my clients have asked for is to be able to bulk email
their clients from within my product. So, instead of writing a
full-fledged email client, I decided instead to allow them to write
their emails, select the recipients from within my program, and then
to use MAPI to open the default email client on their machine. The
problem is Outlook, if Outlook is their default email client, it
seems to choke on sending the emails.

Define "choke".
--
Brian Tillman

Bad idea to use Outlook. Buy an smtp componet (e.g. mailbee) and use that
instead.

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