olemsg32 module used in win32com exchange server example?
Gordon McMillan
gmcm at hypernet.com
Fri Jan 21 11:15:46 EST 2000
Aahz wrote:
> Grant Edwards <grant at nowhere.> wrote:
> >In article <38863DB3.7FAEC820 at callware.com>, Ivan Van Laningham wrote:
> >>
> >>I suspect that is true, but there's a gotcha. Unless I'm wrong, both
> >>NetScape Mail and Outlook use MAPI dll's, but they expect different
> >>functions to be found there. So, when I want to use Outlook to retrieve
> >>mail, I can configure everything else correctly but I have to change the
> >>MAPI.DLL to the one the Outlook expects or it barfs. Then put it back
> >>when I want to use NetScape. ...
> >
> ><Boggle>
>
> It's even worse than that. AFAIK, NT *still* only loads one copy of a
> DLL, so that even if you have DLLs in two different directories, it is
> impossible simultaneously to run programs that use a same-named DLL if
> they need even different versions.
Wrong about that. Though 2 different versions of a mapi dll
loaded at the same time might yield trouble, it's not because
you can't load them. I do it all the time with (different)
python15.dlls.
- Gordon
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