Send email through mapi

[sentiboy]

I am using the following code for sending email through mapi in VS 2005
environment:

Public objSession As New MSMAPI.MAPISession
Public objMessage As New MSMAPI.MAPIMessages

objSession.DownLoadMail = False
objSession.UserName = "MyUsername"
objSession.Password = "MyPassword"
objSession.SignOn()
objMessage.SessionID = objSession.SessionID
objMessage.Compose()

objMessage.RecipAddress = txtTo.Text
objMessage.Text = txtBody.Text
objMessage.Subject = txtSubject.Text

objMessage.Send(True) 'ShowDialog
MsgBox("Message sent successfully!")
objSession.SignOff()

I uninstalled Microsoft Outlook (comes along with msoffice), now my
default client is Outlook Express, I get this exception:

An unhandled exception of type
'System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException' occurred in
mailclient.exe

Can anybody help me out ?

Regards,
Sentiboy

 

[Duane Phillips]

Why use an installed client when you can use the DotNet infrustructure,
which has it all built in?

'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
'SMTP EMAIL NOTES
'As condensed from: http://www.systemwebmail.com/default.aspx
'1. Have a reference set to the System.Web.dll.
'2. Have "Imports System.Web.Mail" statement at the top of your code.
'3. SmtpMail.SmtpServer must allow relaying for FROM email address or your
IP address,
' or you must use dotNET 1.1 or higher to authenticate.
'SAMPLE SETTINGS
'Dim emlEmail As New System.Web.Mail.MailMessage()
' NOTE: all email addresses can be like: "(e-mail address removed)" - OR -
Fully named like: """John Smith"" <[email protected]>"
' Also, multiple email addresses can be sent separated by semi-colon
character.
'emlEmail.To = "(e-mail address removed)"
'emlEmail.From = "(e-mail address removed)"
'emlEmail.Cc = "(e-mail address removed)" 'optional
'emlEmail.Bcc = "(e-mail address removed)" 'optional
'emlEmail.Subject = "SUBJECT_HERE"
'emlEmail.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html
'emlEmail.Body = "BODY OF THE MESSAGE HERE"
'emlEmail.Headers.Add("Reply-To", "(e-mail address removed)")
'Attachments()
'Dim attachment As New System.Web.Mail.MailAttachment("C:\Foo.xls") 'create
the attachment
'emlEmail.Attachments.Add(attachment) 'add the attachment
'Authentication cannot be done using the .NET Framework 1.0. Must use 1.1 or
higher.
'emlEmail.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate",
"1") 'basic authentication
'emlEmail.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername",
"my_username_here") 'set your username here
'emlEmail.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword",
"super_secret") 'set your password here
'SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "EMAIL_SERVER_DOMAIN" 'your real server goes here
'SmtpMail.Send(emlEmail)
'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Please note that the above example is for DotNet 1.x
http://www.systemwebmail.com/

To see more information for 2.x, see http://www.systemnetmail.com/

I have found these two sites very useful.

HTH.

Cheers!

~ Duane Phillips.

 

[Duane Phillips]

I just saw your previous similar-veined post, and realized my response may
not be what you are looking for, as you are actually trying to tie into the
Outlook messaging system. I have not dug that deeply into MAPI... I just
needed to be able to *send* email to our local email server from our
automated application. However, you may still find what you are looking for
at the sites I mentioned.

Cheers!

~ Duane Phillips.

 

[Al Christoph]

I need to do some checking with the latest stuff but the last I looked
around the first of the year, the elegant stuff in the framework wasn't
worth the effort to blow it up IN REAL WORLD APPLICATIONS!

My testing worked great in my office. The moment I took it to a real site -
my client's, not even the motely crew of real end users - it ran into
firewall problems.

I gave up and used VB 6 techniques!

It's on my list to revisit when I get time.

Elegance is all right. Working is better.

Regards,
Al