outlook-mapi 0.4.0

Rust bindings for the Outlook MAPI interface
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outlook-mapi

This crate implements Rust bindings for the Outlook MAPI COM APIs. The bindings are generated by the Windows crate in outlook-mapi-sys.

Getting Started

Include a reference to outlook-mapi in your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]

outlook-mapi = "0.4.0"

See the docs for more details.

Safety

Most of the bindings are re-exported transparently from outlook-mapi-sys, and they are still marked unsafe. Unlike typical idiomatic Rust crates wrapped around a -sys crate, the emphasis of this crate is on writing as little manual wrapper code as possible. This way, outlook-mapi can project 100% of the Outlook MAPI COM API, but the downside is you will need to wrap most uses in an unsafe block or function.

Convenience Types

NYI: This crate should implement helpers and safe wrappers for the most commonly used COM interfaces and MAPI structs.

Windows Metadata

The Windows crate requires a Windows Metadata (winmd) file describing the API. The one used in this crate was generated with the mapi-win32md project. This crate needs it to use the #[implement] macro from the Windows crate.