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My award goes to Extended MAPI. It took me weeks of trial and error just to read and send email messages through an Exchange Server. I remember people were selling 3rd party wrappers for the API, because it was so horrible.


I used the Extended MAPI API for years ... I thought there was something wrong with me as I struggled through the insanity ... until I saw modern APIs.


Man, and my idea of an ugly API is urllib2...


Yeah, MAPI certainly deserved a mention




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