Handle MAPI send-mail to native mail client

[penzoiders]

hi, anyone had managed to "deliver" a MAPI "send mail" call to a native client

What I'm trying to do is: from .exe running under wine --> part of the application uses MAPI to send mail messages (popupwindow with "send mail", or "send to mail client" buttons) --> open native thunderbird under linux.

I managed to set mailto http https ftp doc docx etc through WineBrowser and .reg patches

but I can't find out how to make this MAPI work without installing a mail client under wine.

any suggestions?

wine-1.7.14

[oiaohm]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messaging_ ... _Interface

penzoiders I have not but I think its a trip into deep levels of trouble. Native Linux Thunderbird does not speak MAPI. So you will need a proxy application in wine to recieve process and send MAPI on to Thunderbird or most likely xdg-email to be generic. http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-uti ... email.html

Basically wine does not have a built in MAPI proxy to native email client. So simplest is just install email client in wine. But if you have the time and resourse to make wine be able to do MAPI properly to native email client patches are welcome.

[penzoiders]

oiaohm, thanks for your reply..

I was aware of the "deep levels of trouble", unfortunately I don't have the skills to create a generic solution for wine.

I think I'll change my software integrating a little SMTP client in it, in order to avoid this MAPI hell.

by the way if someone is interested this may be a good starting point for not building from scratch:
http://www.openchange.org/documentation ... index.html
seems that some kind of "MAPI_Client_Calls >>> TO >>> ExchangeRPC" has already been implemented... should be turned into something like "MAPI_Client_Calls >>>TO >>>xdg-mail"

cheers