Controlling Outlook From External Program Problem

[PaulHerschell]

Microsoft Outlook 2000 and XP report

'A program is automatically trying to send e-mail on your behalf. Do you want to allow this? If this iis unexpected, it may be a virus and you should choose 'No'?'

followed by a 5 second delay per email and Yes / No buttons. Whilst there are very good reasons for this feature can anybody tell me how to turn it off as my application needs to bulk mailmerge with Outlook using Visual Basic automation commands and the features makes this almost unworkable.

The security feature seems to have come in in one of the Office 2000 service packs. I have removed Office 2000 and then installed my original Office CD and the feature has gone away.

a) What service packs (1, 1a, 2) can I safely reinstall without reinstalling the feature?

b) Can I install service pack 2 (the latest I believe?) and turn off the feature?

c) What is the situation with Office XP?


I have put a lot of work into getting my application up and running and Microsoft seem to have ruined everything with this feature, although I can see how it is a good virus protection mechanism only if they made it more configurable.

I have spent a few hours on the Microsoft Knowledge base - there are lots of articles about the feature but nothing about how to turn it off that I have found so far except for customising the feature for users of Exchange server. I have standalone Outlook and am not using Exchange so this is irrelevant to me.

Any assistance here will be really appreciated. Many people must have got around it by now - but how?!!!

PaulHerschell

 

[Databaseguy]

I'm running 2000 w/no service packs, and when I do bulk E-mails, I am not prompted.

I believe, but not 100% sure, that SP2A adds the security.

As you are probably aware, MS added this "feature" to warn/disable VBscript,Virii, Etc from mailing w/o the users knowledge... Tyrone Lumley
augerinn@gte.net

http://server105.hypermart.net/databaseguy

 

[PaulHerschell]

Tyrone,

Note convinced about 2a as I haven't installed 2a and I have the security update. Are you confused about 1a. I installed 1, 1a and 2 - I have a vague recollection is was not on 1 but am not sure but have rolled back to no service pack for now. I certainly won't be upgrading to XP at this rate.

Microsofts reasons for implementing the update are sound. What they ommit, however, is that they exposed these features to developers like myself so that we could do mass mailing from database applications and then after many hours of development they close the feature off again with no option of overriding the feature for trusted sources. I know it can be done in an Exchange environment but that is no good to me.

Paul