MSN Api Windows

[ozUkoG1T]

Hi,

I am in need of MSN API link for Windows. I want to use MSN api to learn more about Email Systems. Please if you have a Link for this please give it to me.

Thanks

[AHCFan20]

Read some protocol specification(s) and get yourself a packet sniffer. I doubt there is such a thing as an MSN API.

[ajh32]

He means Windows API.

You can either use MAPI or SMTP.

[AHCFan20]

I assumed he already knows about sockets and MAPI and wants to learn the underlying network protocols. The OP sort of implies that.

[ozUkoG1T]

Yeah , I already know about socket programming well , I know till a intermediate level in MAPI but I want to use a MSN API to program for MSN quicker rather than building and acknowledging the Full MSN Protocol. Which will take few days considering MSN protocol is quite large.

Thanks

[MikeyBoy]

I doubt there is such a thing as an MSN API.

Microsoft use "MSN" as a brand for a whole lot of things. If the OP is talking about Messenger, their IM system, then there are certainly 3rd-party clients for it, so I assume there's some kind of API that Microsoft make available.

Edit: I'm not sure someone who calls himself Cyberwarfare has entirely pure intentions, though...

[modoran]

What the hell is this "MSN" protocol ? Emails are usually sent through SMTP and read through POP3 or IMAP4 protocols. If MSN supports these protocols, then by far the most simple library to use is libcurl (they already have a working sample, just copy-paste it as you seems to like :P ).

http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/

And I really doubt about this:

Yeah , I already know about socket programming well , I know till a intermediate level in MAPI

[ResidentBiscuit]

I know for a fact that Microsoft's email is done through SMTP and POP/IMAP as I had to set my hotmail account up with Thunderbird awhile ago.

[naraku9333]

He may be looking for an old MSN api, microsoft doesn't seem to provide it anymore but it is hosted http://msghelp.net/showthread.php?tid=30845
there is also a newer hotmail api http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/live/hh826535