From: kiffney at my-dejanews.com (Gustin Kiffney)
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 17:26:10 GMT
Subject: pythonwin/mapi crystal ball needed
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Thanks, your answer is in fact very helpful, since I don't know enough about
MAPI yet to figure out which way to go (in terms of least effort).  Perhaps
when I'm done I can help w/ the python extensions - if I ever return alive!

BTW, pythonwin is a very neat job.  Someday I hope it will make VB go away ...

  "Mark Hammond" <MHammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:
> Gustin Kiffney wrote in message <7fnbks$ga1$1 at nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>
> >Anyway I've long put off learning much about MFC/COM/MAPI because
> >it looked too hard, but now have to find a way to implement a MAPI
> >service provider (an address book).  I've looked at the MAPI stuff
> >in the python win32all distribution and it looks pretty complete (anyway,
> >it looks like lots of stuff that I don't understand yet is there).
>
> Unfortunately, Python can not do this.  The MAPI support allows us to _use_
> MAPI objects, whereas implementing an Address Book provider requires you to
> implement them.
>
> The only way to go this route is to enhance the MAPI support to be able to
> do this.  This would not be trivial - I would allow myself 1 week to do
> this.  However, as writing an Address Book provider is very hard, and lots
> of code, I personally would probably still go this route - I think the week
> invested would buy me time...
>
> Sorry I can't be more help, or give better news...
>
> Mark.
>
>

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