189344 - recipient not filled out when mapi is used from MS Access

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Simple MAPI, defect)

Description

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

ok, I now tried to use MAPI to open a Mozilla mail window with a filled-out
recipient.

However, no recipient was filled out. Body and Subject was fine.

This doesn't work in NS 6.2.1, neither does it work in mozilla trunk 2003011412

Comment 1

[esther]

Christian, how can it fill in the recipent, it doesn't know who you want to send
the message too.  

When using MAPI to Send a file to someone using the default mail app, you will
get the Compose window with the sender information filled in and the file listed
as an attachment, you need to fill in who the message is going to (the
recipient/s).   

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

esther, I'm using MAPI from my own program (well, MS Access actually), and the
API allows to specify recipients for a Message.

See e.g. 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/mapi/html/_mapi1book_mapimessage_simple_mapi_.asp
together with:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/mapi/html/_mapi1book_mapirecipdesc_simple_mapi_.asp

for the APIs programs can use to specify recipients with MAPI.

Comment 3

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

actually, doing it the way it is described there works just fine (just wrote a
testing program for that)

I wonder why it doesn't work from Access...

Comment 4

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

*** Bug 204220 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

Bug 204220 has a sample database showing this bug

Comment 6

[Arnaud de Villèle]

Anyone on this bug ???

Comment 7

[Sven W.]

*** Bug 222171 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Sven W.]

i resubmit some more information that i found out (false report 222171):
i also noticed this bug on win2000 and with mozilla (any 1.x version) as well as 
thunderbird 0.2 and 0.3. i also could reproduce this problem with the eudora 
mail client. but outlook, opera6, opera7 and netscape 4 work fine in generating 
mails.

i had another program call a new mail (jasc paint shop pro 7) and it called the 
netscape 4 mail client with all: subject, mailto address and content, but i am 
not sure which application call they're using, maybe it's another call (not 
mapi).

maybe this helps: i also have opera 6 and 7, as well as netscpae 4 and 
thunderbird on my OS. i also tried several versions of mozilla (which i now 
uninstalled via 'software' in the 'control panel'), which had the same problem.
could it possibly be that another browser or mail application causes this 
trouble?

Comment 9

[Stirling]

I reported this ages ago.  Has not been fixed as far as I can see.  

Do any of these bug actually get fixed?

Comment 10

[Stirling]

*** Bug 181413 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: proposed fix

if mapi client passes in e-mail address in the name field instead of address
field, we should use that instead...

Comment 12

[David :Bienvenu]

this fix was checked in.

Comment 13

[Jeff Schmidt]

(In reply to comment #12)
> this fix was checked in.

I am using: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217

Which appearst to be the most recent release build available. I can confirm that
I am still having this problem. I have an MS Access database that uses MAPI
calls to generate emails. The To: and Bcc: information is not being succussfully
loaded into the mail compose window, but the Subject: and body are fine.

Has that fix that was checked in been applied to any of the release builds?

Comment 14

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #13)
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217
> 
> Which appearst to be the most recent release build available. I can confirm
> that I am still having this problem.

Reporter of bug 157859 has the same complaint with current builds.  There is 
some sample code there (VB or somethign) that he says exhibits the problem.

Comment 15

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 242891 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***