Sending Email With MAPI Components in Visual Basic (Page 1 of 4 )
MAPI is an acronym for the Messaging Application Programming Interface. It's a set of core system components that can be used to automate several windows tasks. MAPI components allow developers to create mail-enabled Visual Basic applications easily. In this article Jason shows us how to use MAPI controls to read messages from our inbox, iterate through these messages, and more.MAPI is an acronym for the
Messaging
Application
Programming
Interface. It's a set of core system components that can be used to automate several windows tasks, such as notifying a technician via email when system resources are in a critically low state, or letting a help desk manager know when all log entries have been filled, etc.
MAPI components allow developers to create mail-enabled Visual Basic (or any other language that supports COM, such as C++ or Delphi) applications amongst other things. At runtime, we can connect our application to MAPI-compliant information services through which we can both send and receive emails.
In this tutorial I will be teaching you how to send and receive e-mail through your application using the MAPI controls. You should have Visual Basic 6 installed on your machine as well as a MAPI-compliant messaging system, such as Microsoft Exchanged, Microsoft Mail or Outlook.
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