Thursday, August 30, 2007

Sending an email using MAPI

There are lot of different methods to send mail using MAPI (Windows Simple Mail API)
If you do not want to rely on Outlook to send an email but you know that MAPI is installed, then you can also send mails with the following handy routine SendMailMAPI(). You need to add unit MAPI to your uses clause. Note that MAPI is not always installed with Windows.

unit uMAPIMail;

interface

uses MAPI;

function SendMailMAPI(const Subject, Body, FileName, SenderName, SenderEMail,
RecepientName, RecepientEMail: String) : Integer;

implementation

function SendMailMAPI(const Subject, Body, FileName, SenderName, SenderEMail,
RecepientName, RecepientEMail: String) : Integer;
var
message: TMapiMessage;
lpSender,
lpRecepient: TMapiRecipDesc;
FileAttach: TMapiFileDesc;
SM: TFNMapiSendMail;
MAPIModule: HModule;
begin
FillChar(message, SizeOf(message), 0);
with message do
begin
if (Subject<>'') then
begin
lpszSubject := PChar(Subject)
end;
if (Body<>'') then
begin
lpszNoteText := PChar(Body)
end;
if (SenderEMail<>'') then
begin
lpSender.ulRecipClass := MAPI_ORIG;
if (SenderName='') then
begin
lpSender.lpszName := PChar(SenderEMail)
end
else
begin
lpSender.lpszName := PChar(SenderName)
end;
lpSender.lpszAddress := PChar('SMTP:'+SenderEMail);
lpSender.ulReserved := 0;
lpSender.ulEIDSize := 0;
lpSender.lpEntryID := nil;
lpOriginator := @lpSender;
end;
if (RecepientEMail<>'') then
begin
lpRecepient.ulRecipClass := MAPI_TO;
if (RecepientName='') then
begin
lpRecepient.lpszName := PChar(RecepientEMail)
end
else
begin
lpRecepient.lpszName := PChar(RecepientName)
end;
lpRecepient.lpszAddress := PChar('SMTP:'+RecepientEMail);
lpRecepient.ulReserved := 0;
lpRecepient.ulEIDSize := 0;
lpRecepient.lpEntryID := nil;
nRecipCount := 1;
lpRecips := @lpRecepient;
end
else
begin
lpRecips := nil
end;
if (FileName='') then
begin
nFileCount := 0;
lpFiles := nil;
end
else
begin
FillChar(FileAttach, SizeOf(FileAttach), 0);
FileAttach.nPosition := Cardinal($FFFFFFFF);
FileAttach.lpszPathName := PChar(FileName);
nFileCount := 1;
lpFiles := @FileAttach;
end;
end;
MAPIModule := LoadLibrary(PChar(MAPIDLL));
if MAPIModule=0 then
begin
Result := -1
end else
begin
try
@SM := GetProcAddress(MAPIModule, 'MAPISendMail');
if @SM<>nil then
begin
Result := SM(0, Application.Handle, message, MAPI_DIALOG or MAPI_LOGON_UI,0);
end else
begin
Result := 1
end;

finally
FreeLibrary(MAPIModule);
end;
end
if Result<>0 then
begin
MessageDlg('Error sending mail ('+IntToStr(Result)+').', mtError, [mbOk], 0)
end;
end;

end.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

thanks dude...but is there any way to send the mail without opening the outlook express window....the code shown here...opens the outlook dialogue box!!

KIRAN said...

Yes, it is very much possible! Just check out this link on MSDN.

Hope it helps.

Steve Narancic said...

dosen't work when outlook is running in windows vista or 7

KIRAN said...

I haven't got a chance to test on Vista or Win 7. Will test this week and let you know.

Unknown said...

@Steve : Is there any other way to run this mail in Win 7. Delphi Product Development.

KIRAN said...

I haven't got Windows 7 yet, I will make sure to test this once my box is ready with Win7. If you guys can find the fix around that would be great!