Set Up Your MAPI Email

PCRecruiter communicates with your computer's default email system using the Messaging Application Program Interface (MAPI). It is the email addition to the standard API used in Windows. In order for any email-related features in PCRecruiter to work properly, you must have a default MAPI email client specified. The MAPI settings can support only one email program. Therefore, if you want to change email programs (for example, Netscape to Microsoft Outlook), you will need to change the MAPI settings. The method for setting an email program as the default MAPI client differs from software to software... select your desired client:

Outlook Express 4.x and Windows 98
Outlook Express 5
Eudora
Netscape 4.5

(Note: These procedures are carried out from within your email program, not PCRecruiter! If you have trouble or if you have an email program not listed here, check your software manual.)

Outlook Express 4.x and Windows 98

1) On the Tools menu, click Options.

2) On the General tab, click the "Make Outlook Express my default Simple MAPI client" check box to select it.

3) Click Yes when you are prompted to set Outlook Express as your default Simple MAPI client.
(NOTE: If you use another MAPI-enabled e-mail program such as Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Outlook 97, or Microsoft Windows Messaging, it is no longer your Simple MAPI client when you set Outlook Express as your default Simple MAPI client. To set your other e-mail program as the default Simple MAPI client, click the "Make Outlook Express my default Simple MAPI client" check box to clear it.)

4) Click OK, and then click OK again when you are prompted to restart your computer.

5) Quit Outlook Express, and then restart your computer.

Outlook Express 5

1. On the Tools menu, click Options.

2. On the General tab, click Make Default next to "This application is the default mail handler."

3. Click OK.

Eudora

In order to intercept MAPI messages, Eudora requires its own versions of the MAPI libraries to be installed in the Windows SYSTEM directory. When the Microsoft MAPI DLLs are installed, then Eudora cannot intercept any MAPI messages since these DLLs are hardwired to Microsoft Mail/Exchange. When the Eudora DLLs are installed, then Microsoft Mail/Exchange is effectively disabled since these DLLs are hardwired to Eudora.

To setup Eudora's handling of MAPI messages, you must choose the proper "Use Eudora MAPI Server" setting in Eudora's Tools:Options:MAPI dialog box. There are three possible setting values:

Never. This is the default setting. This causes the Eudora MAPI DLLs to be uninstalled and the Microsoft MAPI DLLs (if any) to be restored. With this setting, Eudora will never intercept any MAPI messages.

When Eudora is Running. This is the recommended setting for those who need to use both Microsoft Mail/Exchange and Eudora. In this case, Eudora swaps in the Eudora MAPI DLLs when Eudora starts and unswaps the Eudora MAPI DLLs when Eudora quits. When running, Eudora will intercept all MAPI messages, effectively disabling Microsoft Mail/Exchange. While Eudora is not running, Microsoft Mail/Exchange will be re-enabled since Eudora restores the original Microsoft MAPI DLLs in the Windows SYSTEM directory. For example, to send a fax using Microsoft Exchange, you must first quit Eudora, send the fax via Exchange, then restart Eudora.

Always. This "permanently" installs the Eudora MAPI DLLs in place of the Microsoft MAPI DLLs. This is the recommended setting for those who do not use Microsoft Mail/Exchange. In this case, Eudora swaps in the Eudora MAPI DLLs and leaves them installed in the Windows SYSTEM directory even after Eudora quits. In this case, you can send a MAPI message even when Eudora is not running. The Eudora MAPI DLLs have the ability to detect that Eudora is not running, auto-launch Eudora, and then complete the MAPI transaction once Eudora is started.

Eudora automatically performs the install and uninstall of the Eudora MAPI DLLs on-the-fly, as necessary.

Netscape 4.5 (Earlier Versions of Netscape are not MAPI Compliant)

1) Launch Netscape Communicator 4.5

2) From the "Edit" menu select "Preferences"

3) Select "Mail & Newsgroups"

4) Check on the option "Use Netscape Messenger from MAPI-based Applications", and click OK