"Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote
in message ...
Hi Doug,
Both Outlook Express and Thunderbird support 'SimpleMAPI'. The
information here may be helpful.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/MAPI_support
I'm able to use either one in Word 2003 and/or Word 2007 as the email
client when it's set as the default (link at the bottom of the
above article).
Bob - I saw that before posting, it was what I based my "tbird supports
mapi" claim upon. I only scanned it initially, looking at in more depth
after Doug's reply though, I see it says "Thunderbird's SimpleMAPI support
is buggy. It also doesn't fully implement MAPIAddress, MAPIDetails and (more
importantly) MAPIResolveName. They always return MAPI_E_FAILURE. Some third
party applications that actually only use SimpleMAPI calls check for whether
ExtendedMAPI is supported. This is sloppy programming, and there is nothing
you can do to work around it. Its difficult to figure out why a particular
application works or doesn't work with Thunderbird because there is no MAPI
logging file." Since this isn't a tbird group, I figured I'd drop it.
Oddly, my wife's previous laptop also ran tbird & word 2003 & did have this
functionality.
Oddly II, my XP PC runs OE & Word 2007, it also will not do the emailing.
Both machines have file sharing & server disabled for wireless security,
which we've only begun to use. A long shot probably, but any relation?
Thanks for the continued replies.
Dan