Melissa,
MAPI stands for Messaging Application Programming Interface, and it's simply a way for
various applications that deal with email to communicate with each other. I believe
it's mainly used on Windows machines, although I'm not at all sure that it's limited
to them.
For FMP and Eudora running in Windows, MAPI is how FMP tells Eudora that it has an
email it wants to send and passes the relevant information. I believe it uses a
different protocol on the Mac.
Matt
At 12:13 PM 12/7/00 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Hello all!
>
>I have gotten some very informative information about my email problem,
>but I still can't figure it out, so I have some more specific details
>and questions:
>
>Here's what happened. I found a set of members to send a customized
>email out to. We use Eudora 5.0 for our main emailing program. We also
>work exclusively on Macs. I went through the email wizard with no
>problems, following every step exactly as I understood I was supposed
>to, based on the instructions. At the end of the process, when you get
>the final numbers of what was sent, how many were bad, etc (in Ebase),
>everything appeared as though the good email addresses had gone out.
>When I went to look in my out box in Eudora, there were no messages as
>having been sent for the group I had just allegedly emailed through Ebase.
>
>I have gotten all kinds of information on MAPI, I find nothing about it
>in either Netscape 6.0 or Eudora 5.0. I don't even know what it is or
>what it does. So, now for my questions:
>
>1)What the heck is MAPI? What does it do?
>
>2) How does the email process work in Ebase? Does it just copy the text
>that you enter and essentially paste it into whatever email client you
>are using?
>
>3) If not, what is the process and how would I go about deducing where
>our problem lies?
>
>Please help, our goal is to be able to customize emails to bunch of people.
>
>Thank you very much for any help!!
>
>Melissa
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