Automatically sending emails on your behalf notice

[Kelly]

I have recently migrated a user from NT (now don't laugh!)
to Windows 2000. Previously in Outlook98 he was able to
run reports (through Avaya Site Administration) and have
those reports write to a temp folder and then have those
reports automatically send the report to another mailbox.
When we try to do that using Outlook2000, he gets an
Outlook window stating "A program is trying to
automatically send e-mail on your behalf. Do you want to
allow this? If this is unexpected, it may be a virus and
you should choose No". So now he has to click on Yes in
order for it to happen, but we don't want this to pop up
everytime. We want it to automatically send the email.
Is there a setting that will allow this? There is a Help
button, however, I wasn't around to have him click on it.
He will be out for a few hours today and I was just hoping
to get a solution. Any help would be great!

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The security dialogs that pop up when an application tries to access certain
Outlook properties and methods are designed to inhibit the spread of viruses
via Outlook; see http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup.htm#autosec. They
cannot be simply turned on or off with a user option or registry setting.

Users can use a free tool called Express ClickYes
(http://www.express-soft.com/mailmate/clickyes.html) to click the security
dialog buttons automatically. Beware that this means if a virus tries to
send mail using Outlook or gain access to your address book, it will
succeed.

If you're the administrator in an Exchange Server environment, you can
reduce the impact of the security prompts with administrative tools. See
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/admin.htm

If it's an application you wrote yourself and either your application needs
to support versions besides Outlook 2003 or your application runs extenal to
Outlook, you have these options for modifying your program to avoid the
security prompts (roughly in order of preference):

-- Use Extended MAPI (see http://www.slipstick.com/dev/mapi.htm) and C++
or Delphi; this is the most secure method and the only one that Microsoft
recommends. However, it applies only to COM add-ins and external programs;
you cannot use Extended MAPI in Outlook forms or VBA.

-- Use Redemption (http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/), a third-party
COM library that wraps around Extended MAPI but parallels the Outlook Object
Model, providing many methods that the Outlook model does not support

-- Use SendKeys to "click" the buttons on the security dialogs that your
application may trigger. See
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup.htm#autosec for a link to sample
code.

-- Program the free Express ClickYes
(http://www.express-soft.com/mailmate/clickyes.html) tool to start suspended
and turn it on only when your program needs to have the buttons clicked
automatically.


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