XCLN: No MAPI or Programmable APIs for Macintosh Client
Article ID: 173104
Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Exchange Client 5.0 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q173104
SUMMARY
The Microsoft Exchange Macintosh client is not extensible via custom coding
through Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI), Common
Messaging Calls (CMCs), or any other APIs on the Macintosh platform.
MORE INFORMATION
This is due to the design of the Exchange Macintosh client, which is not
programmable in a MAPI or CMC sense. The only support available includes a
response to the Apple OpenDocument event (open a new message with the
document provided as a file attachment) and a GURL mailto or news
AppleEvent. For more information about these, see Apple documentation.
MAPI calls are specific to the Windows platform and make function calls to
the Mapi.dll and Mapi32.dll files. These files are not used on the
Macintosh platform, therefore MAPI programming is not possible on the
Macintosh.
Microsoft does not document or support any MAPI or CMC calls for the
Macintosh platform. In addition, Microsoft does not have a version of
Visual Basic for the Macintosh platform.
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