another program is trying to automatically send email on your behalf

[Lewis Jones]

I am running Windows XP Home with Office 2000 Premium.

I have upgraded to Outlook 2002 for the sake of my Pocket PC.

When I do a mail merge from Word (using an Access database), I get the
following message:
another program is trying to automatically send email on your behalf

I do frequent, large e-mail mailouts and cannot afford to click 'yes' every
five seconds to get through the merging process. I am aware of the ClickYes
software, but the free version doesn't remove the wait just the click, and
that isn't good enough for large mailouts.

I appreciate the fact that I could pay for the premium ClickYes software,
but I somehow revile against the idea that because Microsoft doesn't know
how to let even its own programs interact securely, I have to pay to fix
their problem. Sorry...

I am aware of the fixes for Exchange servers, but I am a private user and
send my e-mails to a *.pst file. The only hint of hope I have found is from
a fellow named Jourdan Saegusa who posted to this list saying 'we went
through the same problem when we upgraded to outlook 2002, but was able to
find a registry update to disable this "new feature".'

Can anyone point me to that 'registry update'? I can find nothing about it
on the web.

Has anyone found any other solutions for non-Exchange users?

Thanks,
Lewis

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Try http://www.howto-outlook.com/redirect.asp?id=mapilab_security

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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I am running Windows XP Home with Office 2000 Premium.

I have upgraded to Outlook 2002 for the sake of my Pocket PC.

When I do a mail merge from Word (using an Access database), I get the
following message:
another program is trying to automatically send email on your behalf

I do frequent, large e-mail mailouts and cannot afford to click 'yes' every
five seconds to get through the merging process. I am aware of the ClickYes
software, but the free version doesn't remove the wait just the click, and
that isn't good enough for large mailouts.

I appreciate the fact that I could pay for the premium ClickYes software,
but I somehow revile against the idea that because Microsoft doesn't know
how to let even its own programs interact securely, I have to pay to fix
their problem. Sorry...

I am aware of the fixes for Exchange servers, but I am a private user and
send my e-mails to a *.pst file. The only hint of hope I have found is from
a fellow named Jourdan Saegusa who posted to this list saying 'we went
through the same problem when we upgraded to outlook 2002, but was able to
find a registry update to disable this "new feature".'

Can anyone point me to that 'registry update'? I can find nothing about it
on the web.

Has anyone found any other solutions for non-Exchange users?

Thanks,
Lewis

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Are you up to date on Office XP service packs and choosing HTML as the format for the merge messages? Under those conditions, you should get no prompts on a merge.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers