Sending e-mail messages by using MAPI

Windows Mail is fully compatible with Simple MAPI messaging functionality. Simple MAPI is a set of functions and related data structures that can be used by software developers to add messaging functionality to their applications.

To register Windows Mail as the default MAPI client, see Make Windows Mail the default e-mail program.

MAPI functionality is widely used by standard Windows applications, mainly for sending documents using default e-mail program, e.g. Windows Mail. See examples below:

• Send a file in e-mail from Windows Explorer (Send To menu)
• Email a document from Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access...)
• Email PDF file from Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Send a webpage or a link to a webpage in an e-mail message using Internet Explorer
• Send a picture in an e-mail message using Paint
• Send your document in an e-mail message using WordPad
• Email pictures using Windows Photo Viewer
• Email faxes and scanned documents from Windows Fax and Scan
• Sending e-mail messages from Windows Contacts folder
• Send your calendar via e-mail using Windows Calendar