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OEAPI supports Outlook Express® 6 running on Windows® NT, 2000 and XP.

OEAPI is a Windows Mail® API also, for it works with Windows® Vista's email client (Vista 64 bits is currently not supported).

Newsgroups (NNTP), IMAP and Hotmail folders are not supported.

OEAPI Enterprise Edition now works with Outlook Express' and Windows Mail's internal notifications to achieve a much faster performance!

Check what's new in OEAPI's latest release clicking here.

 


General
Standard
Version
Enterprise
Version
   
•  All the functionality is implemented in a COM object.
Yes
Yes
•  A demo application written in Visual Basic is included in the package.
Yes
Yes
•  A demo application written in Visual C++ is included in the package.
Yes
Yes
•  A demo application written in C# is included in the package.
Yes
Yes
•  A small demo application written in Dephi is included in the package.
Yes
Yes
•  Plugin support as a dll that runs in OE/WM's same space. You will be able to run inside OE/WM.
Yes
Yes
•  Basic Identity support.
Yes
Yes
   
   

User Interface
Standard
Version
Enterprise
Version
   
•  Add buttons and sub-buttons to OE/WM's default main window's toolbar.
Yes
Yes
•  Add your own toolbars, buttons and sub-buttons to OE/WM's main window.
Yes
Yes
•  Add tooltips to your buttons.
Yes
Yes
•  Multi toolbars support. Create more than one toolbar from your plugin.
Yes
Yes
•  Your toolbars can be created with small or large buttons.
Yes
Yes
•  Add toolbar separators.
Yes
Yes
•  Multi-buttons support (Like the OE/WM's 'Create Mail' button).
Yes
Yes
•  Enable / Disable / Show / Hide your toolbar's buttons.
Yes
Yes
•  Add your own menus and sub-menus to OE/WM's main and message windows.
Yes
Yes
•  Enable / Disable your menu items.
Yes
Yes
•  Handle the click events of your buttons, sub-buttons and menu items.
Yes
Yes
   
   

Folders
Standard
Version
Enterprise
Version
   
•  Browse all the folders of Outlook Express and Windows Mail.
Yes
Yes
•  Rename / Move / Delete / Create a folder.
Yes
Yes
•  Handle the OnNewMessage and OnMessageDeleted events in a folder.
Yes
Yes
• 

Handle the global event OnNewMessage when a message arrives.

Yes
Yes
•  Handle general events: OnFolderCreated, OnFolderDeleted, OnFolderRenamed,
  OnFolderMoved, OnFolderUnreadChanged and OnFolderSelectionChanged.
Yes
Yes
   
   

Messages
Standard
Version
Enterprise
Version
   
•  Browse messages in a folder.
Yes
Yes
•  Get Header / Body / Source.
Yes
Yes
•  Get Message State / Priority / Display From / Subject.
Yes
Yes
•  Basic MIME Support: Browse, modify, insert and remove bodies.
Yes
Yes
•  Attachment API: Add / List / Save to disk (Temove is provided in the Bodies API).
Yes
Yes
•  Change any message properties. (Some visible properties changes, like 'Subject', 'To' and 'From', are reflected correctly in the preview pane and in the detail window, but they cannot be reflected in OE/WM's messages listview directly. To have them reflected correctly you need to clone the message first.)



Yes



Yes
•  Get / Set custom properties / headers.
Yes
Yes
•  Message Clone: Make an exact copy of a message. Changes to cloned message's visible properties are reflected correctly on OE/WM's messages list view.

Yes

Yes
•  Delete / Create message.
Yes
Yes
•  Mark as Read / Unread.
Yes
Yes
•  Copy / Move messages.
Yes
Yes
•  Send message.
Yes
Yes
   
   

Messages / Folder Selection
Standard
Version
Enterprise
Version
   
•  Get / Set Selected Message/s.
No
Yes
•  Get / Set Selected Folder.
No
Yes
   
   

Events
Standard
Version
Enterprise
Version
   
• 
OnDatabaseChange, the fastest notification available for Database Transactions:
New message, message deleted, message changed to read or unread, new folder and folder deleted.

No

Yes
•  OnMessageSelectionChanged.
No
Yes
•  OnFolderSelectionChanged.
No
Yes
•  OnMessageDownloadStarted and OnMessageDownloadFinished, triggered when OE/WM synchronizes messages with server/s.
No
Yes
   
   

Outbox Filter
Standard
Version
Enterprise
Version
   
•  Modify the messages before they are sent.
No
Yes
•  Modify the text of the control where is displayed the current message.
No
Yes
   
   

Message Window
(Compose, Reply, Reply All, Forward and
Open Message windows)
Standard
Version
Enterprise
Version
   
•  Add buttons and subbuttons to OE/WM's default toolbar.
No
Yes
•  Multi toolbars support. Create more than one toolbar from your plugin.
No
Yes
•  Toolbars can have small or large buttons.
No
Yes
•  Multi-buttons support (Like the 'Create Mail' button in OE/WM).

No

Yes
•  Enable / Disable / Show / Hide toolbar buttons.
No
Yes
•  Get / Set Subject.
No
Yes
•  Get / Set Body.
No
Yes
•  Get / Set Cc.

No

Yes
•  Get / Set To.
No
Yes
•  Press the 'Send' button.
No
Yes
•  Send any key as a user input.
No
Yes
•  Handle the button's click events.
No
Yes
•  Handle the 'Send' button click event.
No
Yes
•  Cancel the 'Send' process started by the user.
No
Yes