Re: Emailing from Oracle Froms with Groupwise

Glad I was at least of some assistance (though I can't imagine getting the PC re-imaged was fun). As for the error you are now getting i don't have a clue - sorry.

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Niall Litchfield
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Audit Commission UK
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"Holly" <shhoff8_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks, your advice helped, I had my pc reimaged to get rid of all of

> the Outlook tentacles and now my email does send correctly thru

> groupwise. Now I'm back to trying to figure out why after the email is

> sent I'm getting a Windows Messaging Subsystem error that the MAPI

> Spooler had unexpectedly shutdown.  Any ideas?

>

>

> "Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in message

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> > "Holly" <shhoff8_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message

> > news:bf0d636f.0303110516.1b203b1c_at_posting.google.com...

> > > Any help would be greatly appreciated!


> > >

> > > We are currently using Oracle Forms 5.0 and Report Builder 3.0.

> > > We are using Groupwise 5.5.2 as our email system.  The database server

> > > is using Windows NT and the client is using Windows 98.

> > <snip>

> >

> > I can't help with the forms bit, but we had great fun with sending email

> > programmatically with a Groupwise 5.5 environment. I would try to test

your


> > code on a machine which had never had *any* microsoft mail client on it

at


> > all, just the groupwise 5.5. client (and the bits of windows messaging

it


> > requires). IIRC the groupwise client uses a really quite old MAPI.DLL

and


> > the newer ms stuff just overwrites it.

> >

> > Of course all the above proves is that your code is OK, after that it

> > becomes a question of getting a standard client build that will work.

Our


> > experience was that pretty much any time we upgraded anything MS the

email


> > programs stopped working.

> >

> > Another couple of things that you may or may not have though of

> >

> > First make sure that the sent to mail recipient functionality of

> > office/explorer works correctly.

> > Second Novell has a developer web site that may help with this generic

issue


> >

> > HTH