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New Outlook: MAPI / Exchange
Can anyone help please? I've recently updated to Windows 11 and installed Outlook New 365. I was previously using Outlook 2013 on Windows 10 but it stopped working one day. Outlook New is gre...
The "new" Outlook is a replacement for the "Windows Mail and Calendar" app. As such, it's not really Outlook in the classic sense.
The "new" Outlook is really a webview container that renders mail in a custom window. So, when you are interacting with the user interface, you're really working with a webpage from the mail server.
That's why there's no mapi involved with it. I don't think microsoft will ever try to add mapi to it because mapi is a "client side" technology that whereas the new outlook is all server side (excluding the html/css rendering).
Bottomline...you'll have to continue with classic outlook for any requirement of mapi usage.
The "new" Outlook is really a webview container that renders mail in a custom window. So, when you are interacting with the user interface, you're really working with a webpage from the mail server.
That's why there's no mapi involved with it. I don't think microsoft will ever try to add mapi to it because mapi is a "client side" technology that whereas the new outlook is all server side (excluding the html/css rendering).
Bottomline...you'll have to continue with classic outlook for any requirement of mapi usage.