MAPI

[Vrajesh Mehta]

I want to develop an application using MAPI controls available in visual basic which will run on an NT server without any user intervention. In my organisation I have a trust relationship between the NT server and Exchange server ie when a mailbox is created on Exchange it automatically creates a domain user with same name and password.I want to develop this application and schedule it using WinAT inorder to send emails to a set of users automatically without asking me to enter either profile name or password for the mailbox. I need to know whether mapi will work in this context or not. If yes How to develop it ?
If No then what are the others ways to develop this kind of application.

[Lothar Haensler]

In your case I'd use CDONTS (Collaboration Data Objects for NT Server).
It's a set of COM components that are very easy to use and AFAIK they are part of NT OPtion pack.

example

set objMail = Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")
objMail.Send "sender","emailaddress of Receiver","subject","message text",0
set objMail = nothing

[Vrajesh Mehta]

Thank you very much for your suggestion I will try out this option. but I am using VB 5.0 and i could not find the required dll can you tell where can I get this dll from. Is there any site from where i can download this dll

[sheetal]

I don't much of MAPI but I can give you one
more solution that is Winsock (Smtp) which is
pretty simple to use only parameter you have to
specify is SMTP server name ans UID /password
all you can control from your code you can
also send attachment as well with converting
yr attachment in UUENCODe format.


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[Matthias S]

I have just written an NT Service in VB6 that provides a function of checking a certain mailbox for new messages and then replying these messages and forwarding them to some people in the company.

I have used the CDO Library (1.2) and I found it very easy to use. It's a free Microsoft DLL (correct me anybody if I'm wrong!!!) and it is very easy to use. You just add a reference to your VB-Project and start mailing away...

If you have any questions, let me know.

Matthias