What is the MAPI protocol?
What is the MAPI protocol?
MAPI is a client protocol that lets users access their mailbox by using Outlook or other MAPI email clients. By default, MAPI access to a user mailbox is enabled. Disabling MAPI access to a mailbox prevents the user from using Outlook to access their mailbox in Exchange mode.
What is a MAPI provider?
Between the MAPI subsystem and the messaging systems are the various service providers. Service providers are like drivers that connect MAPI client applications to an underlying messaging system. MAPI supports each type of service independently, enabling a vendor to offer one or more custom service providers.
What is MAPI feature?
The MAPI programming interface fulfills the requirements of client applications with diverse messaging needs, such as a word processing application that requires only the ability to send documents, or a workgroup application that requires the ability to share and store different types of data.
Is MAPI an email protocol?
MAPI is a proprietary Microsoft protocol that allows the Microsoft Outlook email client to fully utilize all of the features of an Exchange server including email, shared address books, calendars and public folders.
What is EWS and MAPI?
MAPI is primarily used with Outlook for Windows desktops. EWS is very similar to MAPI and was developed essentially as the MAPI-equivalent to be used with Mac Mail or Microsoft Outlook for Mac. In addition, it’s the protocol used by eM Client, a popular email client that’s available for both MacOS and Windows.
Is MAPI encrypted?
Transport Encryption If you want to secure sessions between Microsoft Outlook and Exchange, enable encryption of the MAPI protocol. MAPI uses remote procedure call (RPC) between the client and server. By default, the RPC streams are unencrypted, but you can enable 128-bit RPC encryption in the Outlook user profile.
Is MAPI required for Outlook?
The full Extended MAPI interface is required for interfacing messaging-based services to client applications such as Outlook. For example, several non-Microsoft e-mail server product vendors created “MAPI service providers” to allow their products to be accessed via Outlook.
Is MAPI and IMAP the same program?
MAPI stands for Messaging Application Programming Interface. This protocol is quite the same as IMAP protocol with some additional features. It is a proprietary technology from Microsoft which uses RPC-based communication to interact with a MAPI-based mail server like Exchange.
What is the difference MAPI and IMAP?
– MAPI – direct live connection to the mail server; – shared Inbox, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, Notes and Free/Busy information for scheduling, Public Folders; – Out of Office Assistant; – Server-side rules and alerts; – Optional server-side spam management; – IMAP – direct live connection to the mail server – POP – send/receive mail only
What ports does exchange MAPI use?
The Exchange server includes an Endpoint Mapper (EPM) that listens on TCP port 135. The Outlook client connects to this port and is assigned random TCP server ports to communicate with the Exchange server using the MAPI protocol. These MAPI connections are used to send and receive emails, calendaring, address lookup, and more.
How to disable MAPI/HTTP protocol for Outlook?
In the Classic EAC,navigate to Recipients > Mailboxes.
