MAPI Protocol

Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) is a messaging architecture and a Component Object Model based API for Microsoft Windows. MAPI allows client programs to become (e-mail) messaging-enabled, MAPI is designed to be independent of the protocol.

MAPI Protocol doesn’t have recording option. We   need to write the cold manually.

Sessions can be run as local or global sessions. If running as a global session, the Load runner statements all finish with a suffix of _ex.

The logon statement is as follows for global session.

mapi_logon_ex(&mapi, "Logon",

"ProfileName=Default Outlook Profile",

"ProfilePass=",

Where ProfileName is “Outlook Profile Name” and ProfilePass is “Password”

Prerequisites to execute above statement.

Define mapi as ‘MAPI mapi = 0 before the logon statement.

Outlook profile should be created on the machine where we are executing the script.

// Code to Send Mail.

mapi_send_mail_ex(&mapi,"SendMail",

"To=Recipient Mail Address",

"Subject=Test Mail",

"Body= Test Mail!!! "

" Body Text"

 "Multiple Lines",

 "ATTACHMENTS", "File=C:\\FileName", "ENDITEM",

LAST);

We can also add CC and BCC above code if required.

Also we can Perform Read Mail and Delete Mail actions.

While executing the script a security message popup this causes execution of the automation to stop.

Following below steps we can overcome this issue.

Open Outlook 2007

Click on "Tools" and then "Trust Center."

Click on the "Macro Security" link from the left-hand pane.
Click on the check box next to "Warnings for signed macros; all unsigned macros are disabled" link and then Click on "Add-ins" to select it.

Click on "Apply macro security settings to installed add-ins" check box to adapt the disable security warnings settings from the macros to include the add-ins as well. Click "OK" to close out of all the dialog boxes. Close and reopen Microsoft Outlook for the changes to take effect.