Web Store MAPI Message-Store Provider

[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]

The backbone of the Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server messaging infrastructure, Messaging API (MAPI) can be used not only to access the items and folders within public and private Web Stores, it can also be used to access the rich set of properties stored along with each item.

MAPI is an application programming interface used by various industry-standard e-mail clients, such as the Exchange client, all versions of Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express, and many versions of proprietary clients, including those sold by QUALCOMM Incorporated (Eudora) and Netscape Communications Corporation. Previous versions of Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server provided stores that were accessed primarily by using MAPI providers.

Exchange continues to provide access to MAPI clients, such as Microsoft Outlook, through the Web Store MAPI message-store provider.