>Craig:
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>I tend to agree with you. However, one of my clients is arguing that the definition of a MAPI-compliant mail client is not a specialization of a mail client. That explains why I am looking for the official definitions.
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>Thanks,
>Daniel


That's right. MAPI is supposed to be standard. However, as with most standards, some vendors do things differently. You still need an email application to handle things. MAPI is simply an API that allows your application to take to the mail application.