Accessing Outlook 2002(XP) e-mail addresses 1

[brent01]

Hi, I have a program that periodically e-mails a message to recipients using MS Outlook(2002 - XP version)

When the program tries to send the message, I am getting the message -

'A program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in Outlook. Do you want to allow this? If this is unexpected, you should choose NO'

You then have the option of ticking the 'allow access for' box and then selecting how long you wish to grant access to the Outlook address book. Or you can just click the NO button to deny access.

Obviously I wish to allow access, which I do, and then the messages get sent, but after about 10 minutes, I will get prompted to allow access again.

Is there any way of overiding this and allow the program to access the address book and send the automatic messages, without the security message.

This problem has only just occured, as the PC that the program runs on now has Windows XP, and Outlook (2002), before everything was fine, using Windows 95 & Outlook 97.

Any ideas, please....

 

[Kate17]

Hi,

I had the same problem - see article Q290498 on Microsoft's technet. It sort of explains it, but doesn't really give you much of an idea for how to get around it.

Sorry! Kate
"Every day's a school day!"

 

[xrogx]

I posted the following to the TekTips Forum at

http://www.tek-tips.com

I would like to disable the dialog box with the same message with which you are having problems, "A program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in Outlook. Do you want to allow this? If this is unexpected, it may be a virus and you should choose 'No'."

I am running Franklin Covey PlanPlus 2.0.2 (PP 2.0.2) on XP PRO SP1. PlanPlus 2.0.2 is a COM add-in. Outlook hangs when using the Quick Prioritize feature. The dialog pops up during a PP 2.0.2 QUICK PRIORITIZE session. The QUICK PRIORITIZE dialog is immediately hidden and the MS Outlook interface is totally unresponsive. There is a "QP.exe" process running via Task Manager, however, you can not switch to it. You can only kill it, which then kills Outlook. This of course is very disruptive to your plan process.

I think I read somewhere that IT departments in many large companies routinely disable this via the registry. Anyone have information on how this is done?


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[robertof]

Does anyone have an update on this issue? I have installed FILEHand Search, which indexes Outlook messages, and it asks this hundreds of times during the indexing.

Really wish there were a simple way to start and to stop the checking.

 

[TonyJollans]

There is nothing you can do to stop these dialog boxes appearing. They have been deliberately been set up without programmatic access. The best solution I know is a little free utility called ClickYes which sits in the systray and automatically answers them for you.

Enjoy,
Tony

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