Allowing External programs to send email ?

[Tony Tuccillo]

Hello all,
I have an issue with a client running SBS 2003 server
with Outlook 2003 client. They have an access database
that performs bulk emailing thru Outlook. Upon doing this
they get a popup in Outlook asking them to approve every
email. In previous versions of Outlook there is an option
saying "Allow this for 15 minutes". However, there is no
such option in 2003. I posted this about a month ago and
was directed to the following website:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/admin.htm

This only refers to Outlook 98,2000 and 2002. I tried
using the 2002 procedure listed and they still get the
prompts. Has anyone dealt with this in Outlook 2003 ?

Much Thanks !

Tony Tuccillo

 

[Mark Henri]

You could try a bulk email program like WorldCast instead. Otherwise, the
Outlook mail security feature can't be turned off. You could write your
own code to communicate with an SMTP server instead of using Outlook also
to circumvent this. Zone Alarm Pro and some of the other firewalls will
see multiple message and complain sometimes also.

 

[Dean Collins]

Mark, is this entirely correct? I have a treo 600 and use Chapura to
synchronise this with outlook 2003.

In the older software revision I used to manually have to click the link to
allow synchronisation but their latest release allows this to occur
automatically (interesting the box still appears but then dissapears
immediately).

Cheers,
Dean

 

[Mark Henri]

Yeah, as long as your firewall isn't stopping outgoing SMTP connections
(normally on port 25). That's how we used to get around it at work
(Microsoft) to have some of our internal software send messages to the
various technicians from automated forms. Here's a sample session using
telnet to connect and send an email message--

http://www.markhenri.com/sw/reference/smtp_commands.html

This example session talks to my attbi account's SMTP server down under the
table of commands. We had a special backdoor mail server running on one of
the machines at work. (The names have been changed to protect the
innocent.)

Keep in mind that I'm talking about writing TCP/IP code via C++, Visual
Basic etc. to talk to the mail server. It's could be considered
intermediate to advanced coding. I'm just mentioning it to show that the
security built into Outlook only works when using Outlook to send mail.

--
Mark Henri
Excel Support Technician
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