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Mail Merge E-mail w/OL2 Security Update

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When I mail merge e-mails using OL2000 I get a pop up screen in Word stating "A program is trying to automatically send e-mail on your behalf". This use to work just fine until I download the OL2000 Security Update. Now according to Microsoft I have to totally uninstall Office 2000 and reinstall it without the security update to get around this. Does anyone have another suggestion? Would upgrading to OfficeXP fix this?

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by dklippert

This from:
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange Solutions
at http://www.slipstick.com

If you're a standalone user, you can't disable the security dialogs that pop up when an application tries to access certain Outlook properties and methods.
www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup.htm#autosec
However, you can use a tool called Express ClickYes:
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 or HP OpenMail environment, you can reduce the impact of the security prompts with
administrative tools. See:

www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/admin.htm

If it's an application you wrote yourself, you can use one of these approaches to redo the program:

-- Use Extended MAPI

www.slipstick.com/dev/mapi.htm
and C++ or Delphi; this is themost secure method and the only one that Microsoft recommendeds.

-- Use Redemption:
www.dimastr.com/redemption/

a third-party COM library that wraps around Extended MAPI but parallels the Outlook Object Model

-- Use SendKeys to "click" the buttons on the security dialogs that your application may trigger. See:

www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup.htm#autosec

for a link to sample code.

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