Sending emails from external database without confirm in Outlook 2

[jha]

Hello all,

we've got a problem.
One of our customers wants to send invoices via outlook originating from the
database MBS Navision 4.0.
We're doing this with an extra program named Broadgun pdfMachine which
transfers the database's report into pdf file format, creates a mail in
Outlook with the file as an attachment and sends the mail.
This works.
It also works when the customer wants to print several invoices as a batch
to different addresses. Several mails are being created in this case, one for
each invoice.

Our problem is that the customer has to confirm every single mail because
there's a security check in Outlook that prevents the automatic sending.
This is possible to avoid in Outlook 2007, where You can skip the confirm
window by changing the confidential settings accordingly and running an
antivirus program that Outlook can trust.
However, the customer is running Outlook 2003 (and not willing to upgrade),
where this is not possible. There is no setting to prevent this message from
popping up.

So the big question is, how can the confirm message in Outlook 2003 be
skipped?
(We thought of an external program that automatically clicks the buttons for
the user, but only as a very last resort. I hope there is a more practicable
way...)

Best regards,
jha

 

[craig.broadbear]

Hello all,

we've got a problem.
One of our customers wants to send invoices via outlook originating from the
database MBS Navision 4.0.
We're doing this with an extra program named BroadgunpdfMachinewhich
transfers the database's report into pdf file format, creates a mail in
Outlook with the file as an attachment and sends the mail.
This works.
It also works when the customer wants to print several invoices as a batch
to different addresses. Several mails are being created in this case, one for
each invoice.

Our problem is that the customer has to confirm every single mail because
there's a security check in Outlook that prevents the automatic sending.
This is possible to avoid in Outlook 2007, where You can skip the confirm
window by changing the confidential settings accordingly and running an
antivirus program that Outlook can trust.
However, the customer is running Outlook 2003 (and not willing to upgrade),
where this is not possible. There is no setting to prevent this message from
popping up.

So the big question is, how can the confirm message in Outlook 2003 be
skipped?
(We thought of an external program that automatically clicks the buttons for
the user, but only as a very last resort. I hope there is a more practicable
way...)

Best regards,
jha

Hi,
I suggest you select "extended mapi" as your email send method in your
pdfMachine options. This will avoid the security prompt, and the
emails will still end up being sent by outlook. Either that or use
SMTP as the email send method.

Regards,
Craig Broadbear
CEO Broadgun Software
http://www.pdfmachine.com

 

[Brian Tillman]

One of our customers wants to send invoices via outlook originating
from the database MBS Navision 4.0.
We're doing this with an extra program named Broadgun pdfMachine which
transfers the database's report into pdf file format, creates a mail
in Outlook with the file as an attachment and sends the mail.
This works.
It also works when the customer wants to print several invoices as a
batch to different addresses. Several mails are being created in this
case, one for each invoice.

Our problem is that the customer has to confirm every single mail
because there's a security check in Outlook that prevents the
automatic sending. This is possible to avoid in Outlook 2007, where
You can skip the confirm window by changing the confidential settings
accordingly and running an antivirus program that Outlook can trust.
However, the customer is running Outlook 2003 (and not willing to
upgrade), where this is not possible. There is no setting to prevent
this message from popping up.

So the big question is, how can the confirm message in Outlook 2003 be
skipped?

Your options with respect to the Outlook Object Model Guard can be found
here: http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?ID=52

 

[jha]

Great!!
Selecting "extended mapi" in the email send method solved the problem.
Thanks a lot

jha