MAPI Failure

[ribster]

Hi, running XP Pro and Office 2000 (SP1 & SP3 respectively). When in word and I try to use the "Send to Mail Receipient as attachment" sometimes it works although, it can take an age for the Outlook window to appear, and other times it comes up with the following error:

Word couldn't send mail because of MAPI failure: unspecified error.

Is this a known issue - is there anything I can do to sort it?


Cheers, Steve.

[davclarke]

hi,
I had this error too. My outlook took forever to link from other programs (using mapi). Then it stopped working altogether and I got the Mapi_e_failure (error 2). Microsofts page had an article that explained that the mapi routines will give a failure if you set hotmail to your default email in explorer. I tried setting outlook back to my default, and rebooting and I don't get the error anymore. Its still really slow though.

Hope that helps.

Dave