PC WRmt: Simple MAPI Programs Only Send Mail with Remote

• Microsoft Mail Remote for Windows, versions 3.0 and 3.2

SUMMARY

With the Microsoft Mail Remote for Windows driver, a Simple Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) application only sends mail and does not receive mail from an asynchronous session with the postoffice called, regardless of whether or not the Mail Remote driver is set to receive mail.

CAUSE

When the application closes the Simple MAPI session, the spooler begins to shut down. The spooler checks for mail in the outbox, spools the mail to an intermediate storage location, and begins sending the mail automatically, without prompting for user confirmation.

The Mail Remote driver cannot control the spooler, so when the intermediate storage location is checked for mail, an asynchronous session is started; mail is only sent, not received.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in version 3.2 of Microsoft Mail Remote for Windows. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.