FFAPI: The Role of Application FFAPI

 Last reviewed: October 20, 1997
Article ID: Q118786
3.00 MS-DOS kb3rdparty

The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Mail Software Development Kit: FFAPI for Gateways and Applications, version 3.0

Application FFAPI and Gateway FFAPI are similar in that they allow you to send/receive messages from/to an MMFF (Microsoft Mail File Format) file. They differ in that Application FFAPI sends/receives messages as a single Microsoft Mail user while Gateway FFAPI sends/receives messages as a pseudo Microsoft Mail postoffice. This difference makes Application FFAPI resemble the MS-DOS client.

APPPUT.EXE (or the large-model version, LAPPPUT.EXE) allows you to "put" an MMF file message into the Microsoft Mail database, where it is treated the same as any other message. For example: 

   APPPUT -iname:password -dm -f2 xyz.txt
APPGET.EXE (or the large model version, LAPPGET.EXE) allows you to "get" a message from the Microsoft Mail database and put it into an MMFF file. For example: 

   APPGET -iname:password -dm -f2 xyz.txt
APPDIR.EXE (or the large model version, LAPPDIR.EXE) allows you to get a postoffice address list from the Mail system and place it in an output file. For example: 

   APPDIR -iname:password -dm -leNET/PO1 xyz.txt

Additional reference words: 3.00
KBCategory: kb3rdparty
KBSubcategory: MailGWFFAPI
Keywords : MailGWFFAPI kb3rdparty
Version : 3.00
Platform : MS-DOS

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Last reviewed: October 20, 1997
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