Email - use Mapi

mesnews · December 2019

Hi,

I have several software for emails, which are MAPI compatible. Is it possible to force the use of one software, not to use the default one?

Thank you

nardmoseley · December 2019

Hi Arnaud,

To specify a MAPI profile name, use Report.EmailSettings.UserName

For Outlook, you can add ppSMTPOutlook to the 'uses' of your application. This will register the RB Outlook COM plug-in and use that, rather than MAPI

mesnews · December 2019

Hi,

On my computer, I have "Microsoft Outlook", "Mozilla Thunderbird" and "Windows Live Mail".
I would like to manually choose the right software.

Thank you

nardmoseley · December 2019

Hi Arnaud,

Windows MAPI uses the email client specified by the Registry Key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail

Updating the Default key value would enable you to specify the Mapi client. Your app could do this programmatically via the Delphi TRegistry class.

Another solution is to register/unregister different RB email plug-ins

- ppSMTPOutlook.pas - uses Outlook COM interface
- ppSMTPThunderbird.pas - uses ShellExecute to send mail via Thunderbird
- ppSMTPMapi - uses Windows MAPI

Open each of the above .pas units, scroll to the bottom. The initialization/finalization contains the register/unregister code. You can copy this code and use in your app to register/unregister plug-ins.

There is not a plug-in for Windows Live Mail. You would need to use MAPI for that one.

mesnews · December 2019

OK, thank you very much. I did not see the "ppSMTPThunderbird" plugin ...

mesnews · December 2019

For the default email client (mapi), why do you use HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail ?
In my computer, default mail is in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail

nardmoseley · December 2019

Hi Arnaud,

This is controlled by Windows. You are correct HCU is the location. (I think HLM exists if HCU has not been setup by the user)

Email - use Mapi

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