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As well as the Extended MAPI client interface, programming calls can be made indirectly through the API client interface ''Simple MAPI'', or through the ''Common Messaging Calls'' (CMC) API client interface, or by the object-based '' CDO Library'' interface. These three methods are easier to use and designed for less complex messaging-enabled and -aware applications. The full Extended MAPI interface is required for messaging-based applications.

MAPI was originally designed by Microsoft . The company founded its MS Mail team in 1987 , but it was not until it acquired Consumers Software Inc in 1991 to obtain ''Network Courier'' that it had a messaging product. Reworked, it was sold as MS PC Mail (or Microsoft Mail for PC Networking). The basic API to MS PC Mail was MAPI version 0. MAPI uses functions ''based'' on the X.400 XAPIA standard.

Extended MAPI is the main e-mail data access method used by Microsoft Exchange . Simple MAPI and CMC were removed from Exchange 2003.


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  Author Leighton, Luke Kenneth Casson title=Samba - The Next Generation: Architecture and Design, Introduction
  Url http://wwwsamba-tngorg/docs/tng-arch/tng-arch01html year=2001 accessdate=2006-03-20


  Author Leighton, Luke Kenneth Casson title=encryption of MAPI
  Url http://mailgnomeorg/archives/evolution-list/2000-August/msg00321html year=2000 accessdate=2006-03-20


"MAPI protocol" is a colloquial name for the protocol. Microsoft calls it "Exchange RPC".


SEE ALSO

  • TAPI (Telephony API)

  • SAPI (Speech Application Programming Interface)

  • CAPI (Cryptographic API)

  • DPAPI (Data Protection API)



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