olemsg32 module used in win32com exchange server example?
Ivan Van Laningham
ivanlan at callware.com
Wed Jan 19 17:41:55 EST 2000
Hi All--
Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> >> 2) Does the win32com stuff talk directly to the Exchange
> >> server, or does it go through a local copy of Outlook?
> >
> >It goes through the MAPI DLLs - the same DLLs that the local copy of
> >Outlook itself uses.
>
> Cool. Does that mean that I don't even need to have Outlook
> installed in order for a Python/COM/MAPI program to work?
>
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. ...
<life-ain't-easy-for-the-dll-impaired>-ly y'rs,
Ivan
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