Re: Writing a GNOME mail client.

[Steve Luzynski <sluzynsk sound net>]

Sorry for the slow response, I've been forced to live on a modem this week
whilst away from my nice ISDN connection. :)

http://msdn.microsoft.com has the bulk of the publicly available stuff.
That plus a couple of decent MAPI books I have that I don't remember the
titles of at the moment (I'm still away) should be enough to explain how
things work in the magic land of theory. :)

It would be interesting to do without Microsoft's libraries to help. The
COM variant MAPI (at least extended MAPI) is built around requires a lot
of RPCs back and forth that their libraries handle most of for you.

When I get back next week I'll send the names of the books I have if
anyone is interested.

_Steve

On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Jesse D . Sightler wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 15:10:47 Steve Luzynski wrote:
> 
> > That said, I still think that if we can all agree that pluggable 
> > protocol modules would be a Good Thing(TM), then once the base framework
> > is in place we can start playing with a MAPI module. I have a sneaky feeling
> > that it will be a serious bear to write and would hate to have it slow down
> > development of the base program. Microsoft's *documented* interfaces are a bit
> > different from what they actually use, and are written around a particularly
> > nasty version of COM besides.
> 
> Is there any publicly available documentation on this?
> 
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