Russ,
While I appreciate your response, I was not happy with your tone. I have
been paying attention. The software worked fine until last week when I
upgraded from SP2 to SP3. Now I get this anoying popup. I got this response
everytime I try to send a "new" email or "reply". Word is selected as my
default editor. If I use the Outlooks editor the problem does not exist.
But, I finally solved the problem. I removed all COM add-in programs (In
Outlook go to Tools> Options> Advanced Options>clear the check box on the
add-in) in Outlook (I had a PDF converter). The popups are gone. I can now
use the Word again as my default editor. I hope this helps someone else.
Is there a way to put the add-in back and not have the problem?
:
You haven't been paying attention. This has nothing to do with
integration between programs and everything to do with email security.
These prompts are from the Outlook Email Security Updates contained in
all current versions of Outlook and in all Service Packs after SP1 for
Outlook 2000. These updates add additional actions to the list of those
that are blocked from accessing the Outlook Address Book. Antivirus and
antispam add-ins are a common cause and others may be affected as well
(for example, Adobe Acrobat's Outlook addin called PDFMaker is a very
common one). As a result, one of the add-ins or programs you are using
that access your Outlook Address Book needs to be updated. Many add-ins
were updated following the release of Outlook 2003 and should work. If
not you'll need to contact the vendor for a newer version.
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2002sp3.htm#problems has a list of
applications known to trigger the security prompt.
You can find more information here as well:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup.htm#autosec
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;838871
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/sec.htm
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Loren wrote:
Pop-up: A program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in
Outlook. Do you want to allow this?
I use MS Word as my default editor in Outlook XP SP3. This popup is most
irritating.
You would think that Microsoft Outlook and Word would be syncronized to
allow Word access to teh Outlooks address list when it was Outlook that
opened Word.
This was bad programming!!
I am seekign a fix. Is there a solution yet?
:
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.
However, Outlook 2003 does not show security prompts on three specific types
of applications:
-- VBScript code in published, non-oneoff Outlook forms
-- Outlook VBA code that uses the intrinsic Application object
-- Outlook COM add-ins properly constructed to derive all objects from
the Application object passed by the OnConnection event
In earlier versions of Outlook, standalone 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
I have installed program which access outlook data via mapi and shows out
information about some last e-mails.
When this program starts to do this the outlook drops out message like: "A
program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in Outlook.
Do
you want to allow this?" blablabla
And there is possibility to allow for not more than 10 minutes. But I need
to allow for whole working day. I'm sure that this program is not virus or
worm. Can anybody help me with this?
Win XP pro and outlook 2000 sr1
Suddenly a have no options to reinstall system or outlook I have to find
some workaround.
