{"id":757,"date":"2014-01-09T23:56:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T04:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/?p=757"},"modified":"2014-01-10T10:32:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T15:32:23","slug":"windows-desktop-applications-sending-mail-mapi-via-webmail-like-gmail-yahoo-hotmail-aol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/windows-desktop-applications-sending-mail-mapi-via-webmail-like-gmail-yahoo-hotmail-aol\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Desktop Applications Sending Mail (MAPI) via Webmail Like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\"><!--\n@import url(https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/css\/wp_blog_fixes.css);\n--><\/style>\n<p>Say you are in a Windows desktop application.\u00a0 This means you are\u00a0<em>not<\/em> in your web browser.\u00a0 You&#8217;re not in Internet Explorer.\u00a0 You&#8217;re not in Firefox.\u00a0 You&#8217;re not in Opera.\u00a0 You&#8217;re in some other program, and you want to send email from that application.<\/p>\n<p>You might be in Microsoft Word and you click on File -&gt; Send to Mail recipient.<\/p>\n<p>Or you might be using the free Word-replacement program, LibreOffice. Or its cousin, Apache Open Office (formerly, OpenOffice.org).\u00a0 In Open Office it would look like this:<a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/OOO-mapi-gmail-0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-775\" alt=\"OOO-mapi-gmail-0\" src=\"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/OOO-mapi-gmail-0.jpg\" width=\"709\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/OOO-mapi-gmail-0.jpg 709w, https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/OOO-mapi-gmail-0-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/OOO-mapi-gmail-0-352x300.jpg 352w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or, in Windows XP there was, and in Windows 7 there is, a context menu (ie, right-click) in Windows Explorer (aka &#8220;My Computer&#8221; in WXP or &#8220;Computer&#8221; in W7) with a menu option: &#8216;Send to -&gt; mail recipient&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 7 Explorer even has an &#8220;E-mail&#8221; button that looks like this:<a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/020620win20exp-10472786.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-767\" alt=\"020620win20exp-10472786\" src=\"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/020620win20exp-10472786.jpg\" width=\"583\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/020620win20exp-10472786.jpg 583w, https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/020620win20exp-10472786-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/020620win20exp-10472786-364x300.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or, you can do it from Windows Photo Viewer, or WinZip.<\/p>\n<p>Any number of desktop programs may have an option to &#8220;send as email attachment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Or, consider Picasa.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s Google&#8217;s instructions (Google makes Picasa) for how you email pictures from Picasa &lt;<a title=\"how to email from picasa - https:\/\/support.google.com\/picasa\/answer\/104211?hl=en\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/picasa\/answer\/104211?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/support.google.com\/picasa\/answer\/104211?hl=en<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"go_wpfix_longquote\">\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.1875px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">You can email photos from Picasa in a few easy steps:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: decimal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.1875px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\"><a style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/picasa\/answer\/answer.py?answer=19579\">Select the photos<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>you&#8217;d like to email.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\">Click the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\">Email<\/strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>button.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\">Select from the following email options:\n<ul style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\"><strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\">Google Mail<\/strong>\n<ul style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\"><strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\">Gmail<\/strong>: Gmail is ideal to use for sending pictures in Picasa. Attach up to 20 MB of photos in a single email. You can<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/accounts\/bin\/answer.py?answer=72198\" target=\"_blank\">sign up for Gmail<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>in a few easy steps.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/picasa\/answer\/answer.py?answer=57601\">Learn more.<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\"><strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\">Google Account email<\/strong>: If you want to use a non-Gmail address to send photos, this option may be for you. You can associate any email address with a Google Account and use this address to send mail through Picasa. <a style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/accounts\/bin\/answer.py?answer=27441\">Learn more<\/a>.\n<div class=\"action\" style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 8px 14px 8px 54px; border: 1px solid #dddddd; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-top-left-radius: 1px; border-top-right-radius: 1px; border-bottom-right-radius: 1px; border-bottom-left-radius: 1px; background-size: auto 32px; min-height: 30px;\">Non-gmail Google Accounts have an attachment limit of ten items.<\/div>\n<p><strong>[Of course, that means you have to <i>sign up<\/i> for a google account, and not everyone wants to to that! -Montgomery Minds]<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\"><strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\">Use your default email program<\/strong>: By<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/picasa\/answer\/answer.py?answer=11064\">setting your email program as the default<\/a> on your computer, you can use this email provider in Picasa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(FYI <a title=\"how to email from picasa - http:\/\/www.gilsmethod.com\/how-to-email-pictures-with-picasa\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gilsmethod.com\/how-to-email-pictures-with-picasa\" target=\"_blank\">this blog post at &#8220;Gils Method&#8221;<\/a> has nice, easy to read instructions for emailing pics from Picasa)<\/p>\n<p>Now what did they mean by &#8220;setting your email program as the default&#8221;? If you follow their link to <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/picasa\/answer\/11064\">https:\/\/support.google.com\/picasa\/answer\/11064<\/a> they will tell you how, on your computer, you can set an email program as default.<\/p>\n<p>Trouble is, almost everyone nowadays has <strong>Webmail<\/strong>. But your <i>Windows<\/i> (any version) &#8220;<i>default email program&#8221;<\/i> has to be a <i>program installed<\/i> on your computer.\u00a0 It <strong>can not<\/strong> be <em>Webmail<\/em>.\u00a0 But everybody has Webmail.<\/p>\n<p>So,\u00a0 yes, this system is broken.\u00a0<strong> \ud83d\ude41\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Technical jargon: the method by which desktop (or laptop, but not web) computer programs do email with each other is called MAPI (Messaging Application Programming Interface).\u00a0 Outlook, Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora and M2 are all MAPI-compliant email programs that you install and run on your PC.\u00a0 They are not Webmail.\u00a0 They dont use your web browser.\u00a0 But they <em>can<\/em> all server as your &#8220;windows desktop default email program&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo mail, and AOL Webmail, can not (well, not without some additional tricks).<\/p>\n<p>Windows XP came with Outlook Express installed on your PC by default, and set as your &#8220;windows desktop default email program&#8221;, but Windows Vista? and 7 have <em>no program<\/em> installed by default.\u00a0 In that case you get this error when you try to invoke any of the desktop email features described above:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is no email program associated to perform the requested action. Please install an email program or, if one is already installed, create an association in the Default Programs control panel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are solutions, but note, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the following solutions present security and privacy concerns.<\/span>\u00a0 See below.<\/p>\n<p>The Gmail notifier, a separate program you download to your computer, may or may not have an option to install a small MAPI-compliant program that can serve as your &#8220;windows desktop default email program&#8221;.\u00a0 It then does everything thru the Gmail <em>Webmail<\/em> interface (as if you were doing Gmail yourself normally).\u00a0 There are both reports that it works and that it doesnt on the internet.\u00a0 And this program has undergone many major revisions in the last few years, so YMMV.<\/p>\n<p>Another option, a <em>Gmail-only<\/em> option, was proffered by a helpful <a title=\"http:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/573568\/gmail-as-default-windows-mail-program-not-same-as-mailto\" href=\"http:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/573568\/gmail-as-default-windows-mail-program-not-same-as-mailto\" target=\"_blank\">chap on SuperUser<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The open-source project\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/tvhgooglemapi\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tvhgooglemapi<\/a>\u00a0might be a solution. Here is how it is described :<\/p>\n<p>Tvhgooglemapi is a simple tool that pretends to be a real mail client to windows but really only uploads the mail to the drafts folder of gmail and then opens the draft in the default web-browser. For the user this is almost exactly the same as having the gmail web interface as the default mail-client for some windows applications (the only difference being that he has to login twice if he is not already logged in to gmail and doesn&#8217;t let the tool remember the password.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another option that supports more (but not all) webmail programs is explained by <a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/author\/Lincoln-Spector\/\" rel=\"author\">Lincoln Spector<\/a> at PCWorld in an article entitled\u00a0<a title=\"pcworld article by Lincoln Spector on how to do webmail from the windows desktop - http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/248860\/how_do_i_make_web_mail_my_default_email_part_2.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/248860\/how_do_i_make_web_mail_my_default_email_part_2.html\" target=\"_blank\">How Do I Make Web Mail My Default Email, Part 2<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[If] you&#8217;re using a Web-based mail service like Gmail or Hotmail&#8230;it seems you&#8217;re out of luck.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The solution is a little program called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.affixa.com\/\">Affixa<\/a>. It&#8217;s free, but you can get more features for an annual subscription of only \u20a42 ($3.11 as I write this).<\/p>\n<p>Affixa installs into Windows as your default mail program and supports Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Google Apps, Zimbra and the Outlook Web App <span style=\"font-style: normal;\">[And according to their <a title=\"http:\/\/www.affixa.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.affixa.com\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> as of 1\/9\/2014, Office 365 also -Montgomery Minds]<\/span>. When you tell a program that you want to mail something, Affixa redirects your request to your Web-based mail service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how another <a title=\"http:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/223\/any-way-to-have-a-send-to-mail-recipient-menu-entry-point-to-gmail\/545#545\" href=\"http:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/223\/any-way-to-have-a-send-to-mail-recipient-menu-entry-point-to-gmail\/545#545\" target=\"_blank\">helpful chap at SuperUser.com<\/a> put it<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You can integrate Gmail or even Yahoo email directly into Windows using the previously mentioned Affixa application, which registers itself as the default email application on your computer and handles file uploading to Gmail.<\/p>\n<p>This is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.affixa.com\/Features.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">a full list of Affixa features<\/a>(broken link). just go to <a title=\"http:\/\/www.affixa.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.affixa.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Affixa home page<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another commercial alternative is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.joonis.de\/en\/software\/mapi4webmail\" rel=\"nofollow\">MAPI4Webmail<\/a>\u00a0(19.80 euros personal license as of 9\/14\/2013).\u00a0 I did not explore this alternative.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Security Concern:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>All these programs require you to enter sensitive information into them.\u00a0 You have to trust these programs.\u00a0 I can not vouch for them, one way or the other (at least, not yet).\u00a0 Note how some more SuperUser chaps discussed it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It would b really great if someone who knows this stuff could inspect\/audit the code and download .exe&#8217;s for tvhgooglemapi to verify the program is legit and not just an email\/password harvester or some such.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a title=\"1172 reputation\" href=\"http:\/\/superuser.com\/users\/16966\/matt-wilkie\">matt wilkie<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/573568\/gmail-as-default-windows-mail-program-not-same-as-mailto#comment811829_645209\">Sep 17 &#8217;13 at 19:41<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You could test the exe on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">VirusTotal<\/a>, but in general it&#8217;s rare for an open-source project to be infected. For problems, you could try to file up an issue report, or try to get in touch with the developers (or become one).\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a title=\"124745 reputation\" href=\"http:\/\/superuser.com\/users\/8672\/harrymc\">harrymc<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/573568\/gmail-as-default-windows-mail-program-not-same-as-mailto#comment811841_645209\">Sep 17 &#8217;13 at 20:05<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fernando Cassia described the concern this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: yellow;\">A SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT SECURITY:<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #e3a327;\" \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: yellow;\">This APP, AS ANY INTEMEDIARY APP, REQUESTS YOUR GOOGLE ACOUNT CREDENTIALS, AND OFERS TO SAVE THE DATA SO YOU ARE NOT PROMPTED EVERY TIME. THIS COULD BE A SECURITY CONCERN FOR SOME.<\/span><br style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #e3a327;\" \/><br style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #e3a327;\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #e3a327; text-align: justify;\">\u00a0I did test this app with a new GMail account, not using my main one. I am not the author of this linked application and I have not audited its source code. If you are concerned about this, you might want to create a secondary GMail account just for this use, or enable two-step authentication. Use the app at your own risk.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fernando Cassia also has a <a title=\"http:\/\/geekgaucho.blogspot.fr\/2013\/07\/integrating-apache-openoffice-40-with.html\" href=\"http:\/\/geekgaucho.blogspot.fr\/2013\/07\/integrating-apache-openoffice-40-with.html\" target=\"_blank\">very good detailed explanation of all this MAPI desktop email programs vs Webmail stuff<\/a> on his blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>[T]he\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">popular OpenOffice open source office suite<\/a> &#8230; allows sending documents from the program interface using whatever e-mail client program is configured on your system, be it\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/thunderbird\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mozilla&#8217;s Thunderbird<\/a>, or Microsoft&#8217;s bundled Windows Mail, or the former Outlook Express, on<a href=\"http:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/software\/products\/us\/en\/ibmnotes\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Lotus Notes<\/a>, or<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eudora.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Eudora<\/a>, you name it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The problem comes, as one AOO (Apache Open Office) user recently pointed [out], when you expect apps that can fire your e-mail client to &#8220;work with GMail&#8221;. The problem is that GMail is not an application. GMail is a web site. You can have an application like Open Office call your default web browser, and even tell it to load GMail with a compose window opened, but you still can&#8217;t tell the browser to attach a given file to your new composed e-mail. At least not without some &#8220;glue code&#8221;.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Rob Weir [of AOO] explained:\u00a0<i>&#8220;there is an industry standard for accessing email: MAPI (Messaging Application Programming Interface). \u00a0OpenOffice works with any application that supports MAPI. \u00a0 Most email clients support MAPI.\u00a0 GMail does not. \u00a0That is their choice. \u00a0We can&#8217;t force them to support MAPI. \u00a0But we [AOO developers]<i> are<\/i> not writing custom support for every email client in existence. \u00a0We support the standard [MAPI].&#8221;<\/i><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say you are in a Windows desktop application.\u00a0 This means you are\u00a0not in your web browser.\u00a0 You&#8217;re not in Internet Explorer.\u00a0 You&#8217;re not in Firefox.\u00a0 You&#8217;re not in Opera.\u00a0 You&#8217;re in some other program, and you want to send email &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/windows-desktop-applications-sending-mail-mapi-via-webmail-like-gmail-yahoo-hotmail-aol\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}