38969 - RFE - Full MAPI Implementation

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(MailNews Core :: Simple MAPI, enhancement)

Description

[Michael Franks]

RFE - Full MAPI Implementation.
I understand that N6 will be have Simple MAPI fully implemented. I've heard that 
Full MAPI will never be implemented. However, we have some important customers 
that try to use mailing features integrated into MS Project, Access, etc. with 
Messenger and are unable to do so. I think, but don't know for sure, that this 
is because of the absence of Full MAPI; and the reason for no Full MAPI is 
because of it's proprietory nature. It should be feasable to use use Messenger 
with MS Project, Access, etc.

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

There's no way we will be getting to full mapi support in this version. if an
outside contributor wants to jump in and take a look that would be awesome!

I thought FULL MAPI was a dying beast anyway and that simple MAPI is all that
anyone uses anymore. Maybe I'm mistaken but i know integration with the apps you
mentioned can be done using simple mapi in 4.7  no?

Comment 2

[lchiang]

mark helpwanted

Comment 3

[lchiang]

I would think that Simple MAPI would have to be done first :-)  It's currently 
not being done in Netscape 6.  
bug 11057.

Comment 4

[Jason Kersey]

Why is this Netscape confidential?  Any reason to not open it up?

Comment 5

[Jason Kersey]

Why is this Netscape confidential?  Any reason to not open it up?

Comment 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

apparently no one objects

Comment 7

[Hong Kwon]

Reassigning MAPI bugs to tiantian

Comment 8

[scottputterman]

reassigning to rdayal

Comment 9

[cpl1]

We have a number of third-party applications that rely on a MAPI-enabled mail client to send out bulk mails to subsets of our community.  Many of these need better support for SimpleMAPI than is present in Tbird 1.5, and that's not even mentioning ExtendedMAPI...  If Tbird can't do this, we'll probably be forced to move these users to Outlook, which will pull their entire departments to Outlook.

Comment 10

[Michael Gabriel]

i have many tools which need access to my outlook contacts, none of them work if i set a mozilla product as default email manager. specially annyoing are any esto cti software and the hp scanjet wizard, they all complain about mapi then.

Comment 11

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

How valid is this still?

Comment 12

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #11)
> How valid is this still?

An what are the major differences between simple and FUll mapi

Comment 13

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Well, I answered my own questions month ago: yes.

(In reply to comment #12)
> (In reply to comment #11)
> > How valid is this still?
> 
> An what are the major differences between simple and FUll mapi

Full MAPI has a lot more involved API, as it is (to my knowledge) pretty much the core implementation of Outlook.

Comment 14

[Anton Kochkov]

Please, add full MAPI support, you even have ready implementation - see libmapi and libmapi++ - https://github.com/openchange/openchange from OpenChange project http://www.openchange.org/

Comment 15

[travneff]

I'm not an expert here, but this might be useful too, even for the current Thunderbird users:
http://davmail.sourceforge.net/

Comment 16

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Both of the projects you have mentioned are GPL, and therefore cannot be used in Thunderbird code.

Comment 17

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Removing myslef on all the bugs I'm cced on. Please NI me if you need something on MailNews Core bugs from me.

Comment 19

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

This is not the same thing as bug 128284. The latter bug is about (in modern terms) implementing the access via the EWS protocol implementation. This bug is about providing an implementation of the Extended MAPI interface.

Comment 20

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

(It is arguable if this should be marked WONTFIX, though--we're unlikely to ever implement it due to lack of resources).

Comment 21

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Full MAPI isn't going to happen