Re: How to avoid a warning message box when sending email via Outlook

On 2006-08-31, Tim Golden <tim.golden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[Dermot Doran]

| I'm very new to using win32com! I just want to send an email
| message via Outlook. However, I keep getting an annoying
| message box (generated by Outlook) indicating that my program
| could be a virus. Does anybody know how to get around this?

As far as I've ever been able to tell, you're stuck with it.

There is a DLL you can use to call Outlook to avoid that.

http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/

It wraps the Outlook COM objects and accesses them in a way
that doesn't trigger the warning. [The security BS is bypassed
if you call DLL entries directly from C/C++ instead of via the
COM interface.]

Obviously, in a sense, since otherwise any would-be virus /
zombie program would simply turn the option off before using
Outlook to send out its emails!

Like most of Microsoft's "security" features, it provides zero
real protection and a lot of real annoyance. Anybody who
really wants to can bypass it.

"Where do you want to be frustrated today?"

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