Sending Mail via Extended MAPI

[David Fraser]

John J. Lee wrote:
> David Fraser <davidf at sjsoft.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>Does anyone have an idea how to send mail via the win32 mapi
>>extensions that come with pywin32? It's very easy using Simple MAPI,
>>but unfortunately brings up dialog boxes inn various versions of
>>Outlook with security patches etc. It doesn't seem obvious from any
>>documentation and the spambayes classes (which are cited as a good
> 
> [...]
> 
> I think that's the idea.  Microsoft's plan to is to make the API for
> sending mail without user intervention so incredibly complicated and
> pulverisingly dull that the even the virus authors can't be
> bothered...
> 

Which is of course a little frustrating :-)

> IIRC, there's a commercial COM server that wraps up Extended MAPI and
> exposes a clone of the Simple MAPI interface.

I think this must be Outlook Redemption ... anyway we'll try and see if 
we can implement what we need without them :-)

Thanks
David