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POHow do I programmatically send email w/attachment to a known recipient using MAPI in C++? MAPISendMail()
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copied!<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/262451/how-do-i-programmatically-send-an-email-in-the-same-way-that-i-can-send-to-mail">This question</a> is similar, but does not show how to add a recipient.</p> <p>How do I do both?</p> <p>We'd like the widest support possible for as many Windows platforms as possible (from XP and greater)</p> <p>We're using visual studio 2008</p> <p>Essentially we want to send an email with:</p> <ul> <li>pre-filled destination address</li> <li>file attachment </li> <li>subject line</li> </ul> <p>from our program and give the user the ability to add any information or cancel it. </p> <p>EDIT I am trying to use MAPISendMail() I copied much of the code from the questions linked near the top, but I get no email dlg box and the error return I get from the call is: 0x000f - "The system cannot find the drive specified" </p> <p>If I comment out the lines to set the recipient, it works fine (of course then I have no recipient pre-filled in)</p> <p>Here is the code:</p> <pre><code>#include <tchar.h> #include <windows.h> #include <mapi.h> #include <mapix.h> int _tmain( int argc, wchar_t *argv[] ) { HMODULE hMapiModule = LoadLibrary( _T( "mapi32.dll" ) ); if ( hMapiModule != NULL ) { LPMAPIINITIALIZE lpfnMAPIInitialize = NULL; LPMAPIUNINITIALIZE lpfnMAPIUninitialize = NULL; LPMAPILOGONEX lpfnMAPILogonEx = NULL; LPMAPISENDDOCUMENTS lpfnMAPISendDocuments = NULL; LPMAPISESSION lplhSession = NULL; LPMAPISENDMAIL lpfnMAPISendMail = NULL; lpfnMAPIInitialize = (LPMAPIINITIALIZE)GetProcAddress( hMapiModule, "MAPIInitialize" ); lpfnMAPIUninitialize = (LPMAPIUNINITIALIZE)GetProcAddress( hMapiModule, "MAPIUninitialize" ); lpfnMAPILogonEx = (LPMAPILOGONEX)GetProcAddress( hMapiModule, "MAPILogonEx" ); lpfnMAPISendDocuments = (LPMAPISENDDOCUMENTS)GetProcAddress( hMapiModule, "MAPISendDocuments" ); lpfnMAPISendMail = (LPMAPISENDMAIL)GetProcAddress( hMapiModule, "MAPISendMail" ); if ( lpfnMAPIInitialize && lpfnMAPIUninitialize && lpfnMAPILogonEx && lpfnMAPISendDocuments ) { HRESULT hr = (*lpfnMAPIInitialize)( NULL ); if ( SUCCEEDED( hr ) ) { hr = (*lpfnMAPILogonEx)( 0, NULL, NULL, MAPI_EXTENDED | MAPI_USE_DEFAULT, &lplhSession ); if ( SUCCEEDED( hr ) ) { // this opens the email client // create the msg. We need to add recipients AND subject AND the dmp file // file attachment MapiFileDesc filedesc; ::ZeroMemory(&filedesc, sizeof(filedesc)); filedesc.nPosition = (ULONG)-1; filedesc.lpszPathName = "E:\\Development\\Open\\testmail\\testmail.cpp"; // recipient(s) MapiRecipDesc recip; ::ZeroMemory(&recip, sizeof(recip)); recip.lpszName = "QA email"; recip.lpszAddress = "qa@myaccount.com"; // the message MapiMessage msg; ::ZeroMemory(&msg, sizeof(msg)); msg.lpszSubject = "Test"; msg.nRecipCount = 1; // if I comment out this line it works fine... msg.lpRecips = &recip; msg.nFileCount = 1; msg.lpFiles = &filedesc; hr = (*lpfnMAPISendMail)(0, NULL, &msg, MAPI_LOGON_UI|MAPI_DIALOG, 0); if ( SUCCEEDED( hr ) ) { hr = lplhSession->Logoff( 0, 0, 0 ); hr = lplhSession->Release(); lplhSession = NULL; } } } (*lpfnMAPIUninitialize)(); } FreeLibrary( hMapiModule ); } return 0; } </code></pre>

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