Sending E-mail From Other App

[Neil Ginsberg]

A client of mine is using Outlook (2002, I believe), and is getting prompted
for confirmation that another program is sending e-mail in his name when I
send e-mail from MS Access. That confirmation has to go, as it's part of an
automated process.

I originally used SendObject. But, according to MS, that doesn't work with
Exchange. So, per their note, I changed it to MAPI code and provided the
Profile name. Everything works; but he's still getting the prompt.

Now, he works in a law firm, and they have a company that provides support.
So far, three people have worked on it, and no one seems to know how to set
the profile to not prompt for confirmation when an application sends mail
for a user. The latest I've heard is that the current guy is recommending
using direct SMTP as opposed to Outlook / MAPI! Surely there must be a way
to set the Exchange profile to not prompt for confirmation.

Anyone?

Thanks,

Neil

 

[Patricia Cardoza [Outlook MVP]]

This behavior is caused by the security features built into Outlook. In
order to get around it, you'll need to use a third party dll called
Redemption or use a custom form deployed on the Exchange Server along with a
reg edit on the desktop.

Redemption is probably the easiest and is simple and safe. It can be found
at www.dimastr.com/Redemption

For more information see the following link:

http://www.outlookcode.com/d/sec.htm

--
Patricia Cardoza
Outlook MVP
Author - Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Lead Author - Access 2003 VBA Programmer's Reference
Author - Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft OneNote 2003

http://blogs.officezealot.com/cardoza

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/sec.htm for your options with regard to the
"object model guard" security in Outlook 2000 SP2 and later versions. For an
external program, direct SMTP is a good choice.

 

[Neil Ginsberg]

Thanks!

This behavior is caused by the security features built into Outlook. In
order to get around it, you'll need to use a third party dll called
Redemption or use a custom form deployed on the Exchange Server along with
a reg edit on the desktop.

Redemption is probably the easiest and is simple and safe. It can be found
at www.dimastr.com/Redemption

For more information see the following link:

http://www.outlookcode.com/d/sec.htm

--
Patricia Cardoza
Outlook MVP
Author - Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Lead Author - Access 2003 VBA Programmer's Reference
Author - Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft OneNote 2003

http://blogs.officezealot.com/cardoza

 

[Neil Ginsberg]

Do you have any thoughts on "Redemption" (recommended by Patricia in this
thread)?

Thanks,

Neil

 

[Gavin Drake]

Hi,

I was going to post the exact same question. Your answers
are helpful, but could you provide a little more simpler
answer for a non-techie?

For several years I have managed to avoide Outlook,
preferring to use Pegasus with VPOP3. But on my latest
work upgrade, the organisation I work for gave me outlook
2003 on a XP machine.

I am trying to send mailmerged emails from Word and I too
get the error messages. Despite telling outlook to allow
access for 10 minutes, I keep getting this same security
message with each email and then have to wait five seconds
before I can tell it its okay.

This is not okay! The help that you directed people to
seemed designed for developers creating their own
processes to do this. I am not a developer, I simply want
to use MS Word to mailmerge to MS Outlook as it is
designed to do, without being treated like a spammer!

Any assistance anybody?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I recommend Redemption highly. It adds a lot of programming functionality to
Outlook that you'd otherwise need Extended MAPI to achieve.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Your question is completely different. You will not receive security prompts
if you choose HTML as the mail merge format when merging to email. If that
format isn't appropriate for your needs, either live with the prompts or get
one of the mass mail tools listed at
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail.htm#massmail

 

[Neil Ginsberg]

Sue, I just noticed your article "Finding Redemption" from a couple of years
ago. In it, you write:

"If you connect to Exchange Server, the administrator can implement central
security settings that allow programmatic access to certain features,
thereby preventing the prompts."

Is it possible for the administrator to turn off the prompts for a
particular profile in Exchange -- thus allowing the VBA code to just use
that profile, while the other users use the general profile?

Thanks,

Neil

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

It's user-specific, not profile-specific.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Marcel Timmerman]

Hello

I would like to send messages from my app using SMTP. Can anyone tel me how
to do this?

Marcel

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/sec.htm for links to references on CDO for
Windows, which comes with Windows 2000 and later versions.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers