Why aren't WinZip's e-mail features working for me?

WinZip® support for e-mailing archives requires that you have an e-mail program installed and properly configured. If there is a problem with your e-mail configuration, then these features will either be disabled or nonfunctional.

WinZip uses a Windows feature called MAPI (Mail Applications Program Interface) to "talk" to your e-mail program. MAPI is a standard interface that allows WinZip and other programs to instruct your e-mail program to create a new message, attach a file to it, etc. If MAPI is not properly configured on your system, then WinZip and other programs can't create e-mail for you. "Properly configured" means that:

• you have a MAPI-compatible e-mail program installed, and
• the e-mail program properly supports the "Simple MAPI" interface that WinZip requires, and
• the e-mail program is configured to be the default e-mail program (sometimes called the "default MAPI client").

Examples of popular MAPI-compatible e-mail programs include (but are not limited to) Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, and AOL 7.0 and 8.0.

AOL versions 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0 are not MAPI-compatible and therefore do not support WinZip's e-mail features.

If you are having difficulty e-mailing your archives with WinZip, we have tips for some popular configurations available on our website. Please visit http://www.winzip.com/xmapi.htm.