David, From a couple different places at MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network)
Important Simple MAPI is not installed by Exchange Server 2003 or later. However, Simple MAPI is supported for use with Exchange 2003. To function properly, the underlying Exchange or Microsoft Outlook® MAPI subsystem must be properly installed on the client computer. In short, you MUST have "Microsoft Outlook" NOT "Outlook Express" or be running in an Exchange Server environment for the "MAPI subsystem" to be present. That's why there is a logon failure. There is no MAPI subsystem . HTH ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Blocker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 4:46 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - MAPI Mail Problem again Dear R:Base friends - I posted this question three weeks ago and many of your were kind enough to reply. Immediately thereafter, I began dealing with a family emergency that has taken most of my time. I kept your answers in my Outlook Express inbox, but, as good old MS software is wont to do, when I checked today all the answers were gone - not in the inbox or deleted messages file. So I beg your indulgence as I post the question yet again! I'm revisiting an application created some time ago in R:Base 7.5. I have a menu item that is supposed to allow the user of the application to send an email to me requesting help. This is the EEP that I wrote and worked at the time I created it: SET VAR vParameters TEXT = NULL SET VAR vQuote TEXT = (CVAL('QUOTES')) SET VAR vDummy TEXT = 'vDummy' SET VAR vPipe TEXT = '|' SET VAR vTo TEXT = 'To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]' SET VAR vSubject TEXT = 'Subject:Help SET VAR vParameters = + (.vQuote+.vDummy&.vPipe+.vTo&.vPipe+.vSubject+.vQuote) CLS PLUGIN MAPIMAIL2.RBL &vParameters CLEAR VAR vParameters, vQuote, vPipe, vTo, vSubject, vAttachments RETURN Running it under 7.6, I get first a Windows error message: "No profiles have been created. To create a new profile, use the Mail icon in the Control Panel." This is followed by the R:Base 7.6 error message: "MAPI: Login Failure: ErrorCode = 3". When I go to the icon in the Control panel, the only options there refer to MS Outlook, which is not my email application (I use Outlook Express and I'm sure other users who will use this application down the road cannot be assumed to use Outlook Express). I have tried using MAPIMAIL3 and 4 - no difference. I've been unable to find help on this issue under R:Base Help (MAPMAIL rbl's are not listed under PlugIns), Razzak's Sample applications web site or his "From the Edge" site. Can anyone direct me to the the right place to get help on this issue? Or provide a solution? PS: I'm not ruling out the possibility that issue is NOT an R:Base issue: that my PC somehow thinks Outlook is my default email application instead of Outlook Express, which is the one I actually use. Anyone know how to use Windows to check that? (Windows help is mum on the subject..) David Blocker David Blocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telephone: 781-344-1920 Cell Phone: 339-206-0261
