Some of our applications which work fine with different ways of email integration, using mailto:, simulated “Send To…”, and SMTP in Windows 2000 and 2003 environments, now move to a new Windows 2008 system with Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010 clients.
We have one use case where the application creates a new mail, sets recipient(s) and subject, adds one or more attachments and then opens it in the default mail client so it can be edited by the user before sending.
Do you know a solution which works in the new environment? Should we use a third party library? Or is there some OLE automation code available which is known to work, using Outlook.Application?
We use JclSimpleBringUpSendMailDialog from the jclMapi unit in the Jedi JCL library.
I once had an app where we built in a user option to specify whether they wanted to use SMTP or MAPI and then all sorts of mail server settings but the Jedi library call makes life so much easier. If end users have gone to the trouble of setting up all their settings in a MAPI client then why would they want to set them all up again in my/our software.
The trouble with the mailto:// stuff is that it’s often not quite configurable enough or the mail client doesn’t handle the parameters in the same/standard way – then users think your software’s rubbish rather than believe they have a dodgy mail client.
So we just use the MAPI interface. Easy.