April 16, 2021

(Tested it with 2019 and 2016, not tested with 365).

Hello, first, sorry for my bad english.

For those who are in production with the MAPI protocol, I strongly advise you NOT to go into production right away and to test this new version. I believe I found an imminent bug with the Notes on Outlook configured in MAPI. I don't want to alarm you for nothing, I would like other volunteers to try to reproduce it. I will be opening a support ticket in a couple of minutes for the Smartertools team to investigate this possible bug.

If you want to test it out here is what I found:

1- Via webmail, create a note # 1
2- If you go to Outlook configured in MAPI, instead of seeing the note you will see html code.
3- Create a note # 2 from Outlook
4- The note is OK in Outlook and if you go to webmail the note is OK, except that if your page is already open on notes in webmail (in cardview mode), you will see the duplicate note in webmail. If you do a refresh in your browser, the duplicate note comes back simple.

The worst is yet to come.

5- Delete the MAPI account from Outlook

6- Delete the connectivity profile on Smartermail

7- Reconfigure the account in Outlook (always in MAPI).
6- Once the account is synchronized again, ALL the notes (even those created before the last update made by Outlook or the webmail) which are retrieved from the server are now unreadable in Outlook (html code instead of the note). In the webmail, all these notes are OK.

I prefer to warn you, because if this really happens on your end, it means that as soon as a client will reconfigure an existing account in MAPI, all of their existing notes will become unreadable in Outlook.

Please give us the results here!

Thank you!