>>>George,
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>>>>>Sorry for unrelated message. I've just sent you a e-mail testing Nigel's class. Check, if you receive this message, please. Also it seems to use Outlook Express, not GroupWise for sending messages. How can I check, what is my default Mail program and how can I set it programmatically?
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>>>>I won't be able to check until I get home later this afternoon. I'll let you
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>>> Actually, I already checked it (sent message to myself). It worked, but it used Outlook Express, not Group Wise, as I wanted.
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>>>know tomorrow. Email applications, as far as I know, don't have a default. If
>>>you need to check if Outlook is installed to use Nigel's MAPI class, easiest would be to check the registry for it. Since Outlook since Outlook 97 (at least) has been an OLE automation server, you could use the registry class that comes with VFP to check for Outlook.Application (ie: ? oReg.IsKey("Outlook.Application")).
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>>> This returns .f., though I have Outlook Express on my computer. Also how can I check for GroupWise?
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>>It should have a registry key under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software. I don't know what it would be exactly, but you can check that using the registry editor (REGEDIT.EXE).
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> I found it under Software\Clients\Mail\Outlook Express. Now the new question arises: does it mean it should be in this place on each client machine (if, suppose, all of them have Windows 95 installed)? How now I can check its presense?

Yeah, they'll be an entry of the above under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE if Outlook Expreess is installed. In fact, all mail clients should be found there.

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