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Re: IMAP vs MAPI
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Thu, 14 Jan 1999 16:46:12 GMT
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Mike Stanley writes:
> Tom McDonald <radiotitan@yanospamhoo.com> wrote:
> > Are the two email type readers IMAP and MAPI different, and, in layman's
> > terms, how? I'm trying to locate a downloadable IMAP type.
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> Not sure what you mean by downloadable. If you mean you want to
> download a reader that will do IMAP, Outlook Express does it, as does
Yep, that's what I meant, a mail program that I could pull off the web free or
shareware. I do have Outlook Express though it doesn't say in the help if it
supports IMAP or not.
<snip>, thanks!>
> I thought, and was probably wrong, that MAPI is some kind of mail API
> that lets Word or other programs do things like mail documents.
Hmm, that makes sense too, as I've got a development environment that
supposedly reads and send email. I'll have to get creative cuz I haven't been
able to get that feature to work. It's probably my code.
I saw those acronyms both related to mail and wondered if they were really the
same. Usually anagrams of acronyms denote different things, but I wanted to be
sure. The more I think about it, the more I want to get documentation on what
the API routines are, what they do, and how I can pass stuff to them.
Thanks Mike.
-Tom McD.
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| (...) It does. You just have to set it in the account options thingies. I use Outlook 98 now and I fear Express junking my settings or I'd run it to find the specifics for you. I'll create a new user on my NT machine at work tomorrow and fire up OE (...) (28 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Not sure what you mean by downloadable. If you mean you want to download a reader that will do IMAP, Outlook Express does it, as does Eudora 4, although I don't think there is a free version of Eudora anymore, only a trial version of their Pro (...) (28 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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