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Thomas H Maine - 29 Jul 2004 01:18 GMT

Is there a way to setup exchange to allow a 3rd party program to automatically send out emails through outlook with out asking the questions do you want to allow this program access to your address list, then tell it for 1,2,5 or 10 minutes. I know there are 3rd party utils for the client side but i would like to do this from server side, b/c the client side programs just sends the email and doesnt care what program is sending it.

tia

thomas

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 29 Jul 2004 01:43 GMT

On the server side, you wouldn't send through Outlook at all. You can use
CDO for Windows to accomplish this, sending directly through an SMTP server.

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> Is there a way to setup exchange to allow a 3rd party program to automatically send out emails through outlook with out asking the questions

do you want to allow this program access to your address list, then tell it
for 1,2,5 or 10 minutes. I know there are 3rd party utils for the client
side but i would like to do this from server side, b/c the client side
programs just sends the email and doesnt care what program is sending it.

> tia
>
> thomas

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Thomas H. Maine - 29 Jul 2004 01:41 GMT

let me further explain the situation, we have our software which can batch import. that is installed on the workstation, currently when they do that security warning continously pops up. i thought i saw somewhere that you could allow certain applications to access outlook and send mail through them. we are running outlook 2003 with server 2003.

> On the server side, you wouldn't send through Outlook at all. You can use
> CDO for Windows to accomplish this, sending directly through an SMTP server.
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> >
> > thomas

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 29 Jul 2004 02:21 GMT

In Outlook 2003, properly constructed COM add-ins do not trigger security
prompts at all unless the network administrator has implemented the Exchange
security settings folder as a tool for managing Outlook security. If they're
going that route, then they can designate individual COM add-ins as
"trusted."

No other programs other than properly constructed Outlook COM add-ins can be
trusted. Is your application a COM add-in and do all its Outlook objects
derive from the Application object passed in the OnConnection event?

Repeating: You do not need Outlook if your primary is to send mail.

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> let me further explain the situation, we have our software which can batch import. that is installed on the workstation, currently when they do that

security warning continously pops up. i thought i saw somewhere that you
could allow certain applications to access outlook and send mail through
them. we are running outlook 2003 with server 2003.

> > On the server side, you wouldn't send through Outlook at all. You can use
> > CDO for Windows to accomplish this, sending directly through an SMTP server.
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> > side but i would like to do this from server side, b/c the client side
> > programs just sends the email and doesnt care what program is sending it.

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