MAPI Clients - Thinking ahead

[TimStone]

I read an article the other day which indicated Microsoft is phasing out their Microsoft Outlook desktop client, and everything will be web based. I can think of many reasons why this is wrong thinkng, and I take it from so many years of personal experience. However, Microsoft seems to like removing well liked products.

Outlook provides MAPI services and I find this to be the best way for users of my program to communicate with their clients, and to retain copies of all communications, and link the responses. I also have SMTP as an option. With web based only, we lose MAPI.

I'm obviously concerned that we could also lose SMTP hooks as the move to all web based continues.

My question is this: What other email client programs exist that provide MAPI. The native Mail program in WIndows does not.

Thanks for your input.

[hmpaquito]

Hi, Thunderbird supports MAPI but its implementation is buggy. MAPI is a Microsoft protocol, so other systems may not reference it.
In my case, to solve this, what I did was use Thunderbird generating the .eml and sending it with an automatic implementation based on sending keys. It's a great workaround but it worked for me and the client was able to stay with his usual email client, Thunderbird.

Greetings