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So Long Mapi Editor…And Thanks For All The Fish

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I’ve touched on the history of MFCMAPI before. The rebranding of MFCMAPI as MAPI Editor and posting it on the Microsoft Download site back in 2006 served a purpose, one for which at the time there were few alternatives. However, since then, I have taken back control over publishing of the tool so I can get updates and fixes to my users faster (as opposed to “never”, which was the case with that download).

Since setting up the Codeplex site, one thing that’s been bugging me is that the “MAPI Editor” download was still fairly popular. No amount of evangelizing the new builds on the Codeplex site would prevent people from searching for MFCMAPI on Microsoft.com and coming up with what I view as an old and buggy build. So, last week, we “fixed the glitch”. If you visit the download page now, instead of MAPI Editor, you’ll find a link to Codeplex. And if you download the file that’s there (apparently – there has to be a file to have a page on the download site), it’s a PDF that also directs you to Codeplex.

The switch was flipped last Thursday, and my download stats already show a huge spike. So the redirection must be working! Hopefully now I’ll stop seeing problem reports on that old build.

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  • Anonymous
    July 06, 2009
    Do you know if MFCMAPI will work with Exchange 2010?   I just tried the beta and getting a MAPI_E_FAILONEPROVIDER when trying to open the mailbox with the latest version of MFCMAPI. Thanks

  • Anonymous
    July 07, 2009
    The problem is between Exchange 2010 and the MAPI download - for a while, nothing worked. We're fixing 2010 so it does work, but I'm not sure if those fixes are in the beta. If they are, then building a profile as specified in my referral madness article will work: http://blogs.msdn.com/stephen_griffin/archive/2008/11/17/referral-madness.aspx

  • Anonymous
    July 13, 2009
    Tried it last week with the Beta and it didn't work.  Guess have to wait till the next Beta.  Any idea when that will be coming out?

  • Anonymous
    July 13, 2009
    Sorry - I'm not really up to date on the schedule for E14.