title: How to send a mail using MAPI?
body: <p>I want to send an e-mail using the mail client on the user's Windows computer. As far as I can tell from the net, MAPI is the way to go. However, after reading through the MSDN documentation, I find out that MAPI is quite vast, with no source code examples. And I have no need for 99% of the features, I just want to send an e-mail. How do I do this?</p>
  
  <p>I have found examples here on SO and on the web, but they seem to rely on something called Simple MAPI, which Microsoft has apparently listed as obsolete: "The use of Simple MAPI is discouraged. It may be altered or unavailable in subsequent versions of Windows". So I don't want to use those functions.</p>
  
  <p>I found a very good example <a href="http://read.pudn.com/downloads162/sourcecode/comm/windows_mobile/737963/SendMail/SendMail.cpp__.htm" rel="nofollow">here</a>, but unfortunately it is for Windows CE and isn't fully compatible with the Win32 API. I managed to implement the code from that link until it got to where it attempts to open the drafts folder, the parameters to GetProps aren't compatible. Does anyone know where I can find a similar code example for PC? C++ prefered.</p>