MAPISendMail with BC5

[andylec]

Anybody have any ideas how I can use the default email client to create and send a message without the user having to enter anything (I've been using ShellExecute with "mailto:" up until now). I've included mapi.h & linked mapi32 but keep getting an unresolved external error when compiling/linking.

Any ideas/alternatives appreciated.

 

[barlowe]

Try this ...

MapiRecipDesc dsc;
TMapiMessage MapiMessage;
Cardinal MError;


try
{

memset(&dsc,0,sizeof(dsc));

dsc.ulRecipClass = MAPI_TO;
dsc.lpszName = " ";
dsc.lpszAddress = 0;
dsc.ulEIDSize = 0;
dsc.lpEntryID = NULL;


MapiMessage.ulReserved = 0L;
MapiMessage.lpszSubject = "Your Subject ...";
MapiMessage.lpszNoteText = "Your text ...;
MapiMessage.lpszMessageType = NULL;
MapiMessage.lpszDateReceived = NULL;
MapiMessage.lpszConversationID = NULL;
MapiMessage.flFlags = 0L;
MapiMessage.lpOriginator = NULL;
MapiMessage.nRecipCount = 1;
MapiMessage.lpRecips = &dsc;
MapiMessage.nFileCount = 0L;
MapiMessage.lpFiles = NULL;

MError=MapiSendMail(0L, reinterpret_cast<unsigned int> (Application->Handle),
MapiMessage, MAPI_DIALOG | MAPI_LOGON_UI | MAPI_NEW_SESSION , 0L);
// --
}
catch( Exception& E )
{
your error stuff.
}

 

[andylec]

Thanks for that. Unfortunately, I don't think I explained myself clearly enough in the first place (D'Oh).

I'm using Borland 5.5, not Builder, and MapiSendMail is the function that causes the problem (when linking).

I get the same problem when trying the same with MinGW.

I'm a little bit new to C/C++, so forgive me if there is areally obvious reason why I can't do this. I'm thinking that I might need a newer/different .def/.a as I can't find MapiSendMail in any of the ones I have.

Up until now I've been using:

ShellExecute(hWnd,
&quot;OPEN&quot;,
&quot;mailto:a@b.com?subject=subj&body=message&quot;,
0, 0, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

It's a bit of a bodge though, and I can't see how to send attachments like this.
Any other means of sending email that uses the default client would be fine, it doesn't need to be MAPI.