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The March 2013 Second Release (build 15.0.0.1039) is live: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com . This is an emergency build to correct a problem a few people were having running MFCMAPI on Windows XP. Here's a change list - see the Issue Tracker on Codeplex for more details, or look at the code: MFCMAPI: On...

The March 2013 Release (build 15.0.0.1038) is live: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com . A few smaller changes this round: I’ve upgraded the project to support Visual Studio 2012. I also fixed a bug in the new PST parsing, and inserted a new dialog into the “Open from GAL” path to give the user the opportunity...

As several of you have noted, we recently released an update for the MAPICDO package . This is the update you have all been waiting for, as it is now possible to build an RPC/HTTP enabled profile to connect to Exchange 2013. What several of you have also noticed is that this update did NOT come with...

The January 2013 Release (build 15.0.0.1037) is live: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com . We’ve been working a few issues lately related to the size of a OST versus the size of a mailbox. I’ve added some features to MrMAPI to aid in these sorts of issues. First is the –Size switch, which calculates the size...

The (very late) October 2012 Release (build 15.0.0.1036) is live: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com . As part of my work to get MFCMAPI and MrMAPI working well in side-by-side scenarios where both Outlook 2013 and an earlier version of Outlook are installed, I’ve added a –version switch to MrMAPI. This will...

One of the lesser known tricks in MAPI is that when you open a distribution list ( MAPI_DISTLIST ) from an address book using OpenEntry , if you don’t specify an interface what you get is not an IMailUser , but is in fact an IDistList , which inherits from IMAPIContainer . This gives you a means to access...

The August 2012 Release (build 15.0.0.1035) is live: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com . In honor of the Outlook 2013 Preview , this month I’ve decided to turn MFCMAPI blue. Along the way, I was able to fix a number of nagging flicker issues, as well as fix the system button placement on XP systems. However...

We recently resolved a case here where a customer, as part of their larger application, was using SetReceiveFolder to direct messages of their message class to the correct folder so their application could do further processing on them. However, when they tested their application in cached mode, it didn...

The June 2012 Release (build 15.0.0.1034) is live: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com . This month we ship some pretty cool additions to MrMAPI: the –store flag gets a turbo boost, allowing you to open a store by Entry ID, which helps some of the automated diagnostics out there that use MrMAPI for...

The April 2012 Release (build 15.0.0.1033) is live: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com . I ship a new build of MFCMAPI every two months. That’s a personal goal I keep to help motivate me. Somehow I got it in my head that I was due to release a new build of MFCMAPI here in April. So I worked extra hard to track...

If you’ve ever tried to use MFCMAPI to troubleshoot Exchange server mailbox quotas, you’re probably familiar with the properties PR_STORAGE_QUOTA_LIMIT , PR_PROHIBIT_SEND_QUOTA , and PR_PROHIBIT_RECEIVE_QUOTA . These properties live on the message store object and tell you what your various quotas are...

A while back I mentioned our MAPI Stub Library . This is a couple of .cpp files you can drop in to your project instead of linking to mapi32.lib, Alternatively, you can build your own version of mapi32.lib. You can read more about the whys and wherefores on the codeplex site or in the MSDN article on...

We did it! MFCMAPI is now on Wikipedia ! The March 2012 Release (build 15.0.0.1032) is live: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com . No UI changes this round, so no new screenshot. I did fix some interesting bugs and added a few nice features. Probably the nicest feature is new MAPI call logging. I‘ve...

This was an interesting scenario one of our customers came up with. They process a lot PSTs. As part of this processing, they create search folders and wait for them to complete building. They found that for many PSTs, they would never get a notification that the search folder had finished building....

No one’s taking my subtle hints about Wikipedia . One more try: It sure would be nice if someone added MFCMAPI to the article about MAPI . The January 2012 Release (build 15.0.0.1031) is live: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com . I’m continuing to crunch on the UI overhaul. This release has...

What’s an app got to do to get on Wikipedia ? You know I can’t put it there myself – that’s against the rules . The December 2011 Release (build 15.0.0.1030) is live: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com . When I started working on the UI overhaul, I knew it was going to take a few releases to get it right. After...

We had a customer recently who was using Outlook 2010’s MAPI in their application to talk to the Exchange server. They wanted to enable Kerberos authentication, but were having trouble enabling it programmatically. They had found the property that gets changed when you enable Kerberos authentication...

Still no mention of MFCMAPI on Wikipedia . I had such high hopes. Sigh. The November 2011 Release (build 15.0.0.1029) is live: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com . Note that build number. That’s right. I jumped all the way from 6 (where I’ve been stuck forever) to 15. That’s the sort...

Before we get to business, a comment: MFCMAPI does not appear anywhere in Wikipedia . This is a sad. Very very sad. The September 2011 Release (build 6.0.0.1028) is live: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com . We got a handful of new features this time. MrMAPI can now parse flags on the fly, For instance, if...

The July 2011 Release (build 6.0.0.1027) is live: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com . This round, the focus was on bulking up MrMAPI’s feature set. MrMAPI is one of the core data collection tools being used in a future update to our Software Diagnostics Platform for Outlook issues. This has driven several...

Here’s the scenario the customer gave us: They use Outlook’s MAPI and a single MAPI profile connect to an admin mailbox, and then use CreateStoreEntryID and OpenMsgStore to open various work mailboxes to do their processing. All day they’re opening and closing these mailboxes. In some...

I’ve noticed over the years that a number of articles have been written documenting how to use MFCMAPI to troubleshoot various issues. I thought it would be a good idea to put together a list of these articles in one central location. So after much searching with the Bing and with the Google, I’ve put...

We recently encountered an issue where, in the customer’s code, a call to GetProps for a particular message failed with MAPI_E_CALL_FAILED. We found that MFCMAPI had trouble getting properties on the message as well. The curious thing was that if we made a GetProps call for one or two properties, it...

Here’s a fun trick. On a machine where you have the Exchange MAPI Download installed, create a file named “Program” in the root of the system drive. Then start MFCMAPI and open a profile with an Exchange mailbox in it. You’ll get this nice error: “The MAPI Spooler could not be started. Close and then...

The May 2011 Release (build 6.0.0.1026) is live: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com . This round, the focus was on a new MAPI stub library and Fuzz testing. The new MAPI Stub Library is the product of months of hard work on the part of a few talented developers and testers in the Outlook organization. I did...