MAPI Eudora User Manual
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(IE) 4.0 as the default viewer if IE 4.0 is installed on your system and the “Use Microsoft’s
viewer” option is selected in the Viewing Mail options. See “Viewing Mail ” on page 210.
Click the page number to display the topic.
Launch a program from a message—If this is selected, you are warned if you try to
launch a program from a message. For security reasons, you should ne ver launch a
program sent to you from an unknown source, or if you’re not expecting a prog ram without
performing a virus check on the file. Do not launch any program if you don’t kno w the
sender.
MAPI
The MAPI options control the Eudora MAPI Server. Eudora’s MAPI support allows you to
quickly attach documents to email messages directly from the application that c reated the
document. Without MAPI, you must first save the document, remember what f older the
document is in, switch to Eudora, and then remember to manually attac h the document to
the outgoing message. MAPI streamlines this process dramatically.
To email the current open document from your word processor, select the Send command
from your word processor’s File menu. This automatically activates Eudora and attaches a
snapshot of the open document to a new composition message. The MAPI sys tem stan-
dardizes how messages are handled by client applications so that each c lient application
does not need to have a custom code for each target messaging applic ation. MAPI
accomplishes this by providing a standard application program int erface used by all
MAPI-enabled client applications. An additional MAPI feature supported by Microsoft
Office applications is the ability to add a “routing slip” to a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint
document. This routing slip contains a list of email recipients obtained fr om the MAPI
subsystem. Once a document has an embedded routing slip, then it can be semi-autom at-
ically routed as an attachment via email to all recipients lis ted in the routing slip. Once the
routing is complete, the annotated document is returned back to the origina l sender.
Note. Close all other MAPI applications before changing Eudora’s status as a MAPI
server.
To display the MAPI options window, do the following.
1From the Tools menu, choose Options.
2Scroll and click the MAPI icon. The MAPI options window appears.