mapi w/o recipient

rbuser

I'm using Outlook 2002 as my mapi client and testing the SendMail of a PDF
report.

Everything works fine if I programatically stuff a recipient's email address
into EmailSettings. Outlook previews the email perfectly with the subject
line completed, email body completed and addressed to the email recipient.

I'd like to pass NO RECIPIENT email address and allow the user to specify it
when it is previewed, but the preview never gets displayed. How do I launch
the outlook preview without specifing a recipient email address?

Thanks
JimG

nicocizik

Hi Jim,

In my testing with Outlook 2007 and 2003, the email client came up with no
recipients added using the default MAPI plugin. My initial guess would be
that this is an Outlook 2002 issue. You might try using the Outlook plugin
(add ppSMTPOutlook to your uses clause) and see if that fixes the problem.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

I solved the problem by not calling :

ActiveReport.EmailSettings.Recipients.Add('');

I will also check to make sure the CC and BCC are not blank before adding
them as well.

On another note, is there a way to FORCE mapi to set the body content to
PR_RTF_COMPRESSED?

Thanks
JimG

nicocizik

Hi Jim,

Unfortunately it is not possible to read from or write data to the
PR_RTF_COMPRESSED property using Simple MAPI (see the article below). I
have read a few articles stating that it is possible with the use of the
Extended MAPI library. This is something we will consider researching and
enhancing for a later release of ReportBuilder.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/268440

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Thanks Nick,
That's confirms what I've read, too. One of my customers has LotusNotes
with the mapi extension installed on their server. But according to IBM, it
only supports simple mapi. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing what
would "wow" them.

Good day.
JimG