Bypass Outlook 2007 Security?

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Hi everybody:

I’m used to using Office 2002/3 and have just been “upgraded” to Office 2007.
Need to automate sending some emails, but rather than try rewriting my old VBA code for Office 2007, thought I’d try the mail merge utility.

I set Outlook security to the lowest level, enabled macros, and added my merge file path as a trusted location, but every time Office created a new mail item, I got a nasty popup warning me about security and requiring that I click on its silly button. It took 20 minutes to send out 9 very simple, brief emails.

Anybody know how to work around this?

Thank you, in advance, for your help.

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I set Outlook security to the lowest level, enabled macros, and added my merge file path as a trusted location, but every time Office created a new mail item, I got a nasty popup warning me about security and requiring that I click on its silly button. It took 20 minutes to send out 9 very simple, brief emails.

I think this is normal for mail merges. In older versions of Office, you may recall that the permission dialog let you set a time, e.g., 5 minutes, during which you would not be prompted again for access by the same program. Is that still an option in Outlook 2007? Or is it not working?

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I think this is normal for mail merges. In older versions of Office, you may recall that the permission dialog let you set a time, e.g., 5 minutes, during which you would not be prompted again for access by the same program. Is that still an option in Outlook 2007? Or is it not working?

Theoretically, it is an option; however, selecting 10 minutes has no effect and even if it did, the utility is so slow that it would still be useless.

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Hi there,
Just joined and don’t know if you have resolved this. I use the redemption package to programatically avoid the Outlook security messages.
http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/
Great for all the Access databases I write.
Cheers.

Cheers!!
Willie McClure
“We are trying to build a gentler, kinder society, and if we all pitch in just a little bit, we are going to get there.” Alex Trebek

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A simpler approach than Redemption (but not as elegant) is to install ClickYes[/url].

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Kriss669 I feel your pain,

I have a few clients which have varying ways of dealing with this including ClickYes. But an application/plugin I am yet to try but have been meaning to is Advanced Security for Outlook by MAPILab.

http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/security/

I’m going to trial it out in a virtual environment as I do with most things and see how it runs as it says it runs on pretty much all incarnations of MS Office and Windows OS. Including being Free for commercial and non-commercial use.

Has anyone used/trialed this?

P.S. Thanks for the link to redemption Willie McClure. I intend to pass it on to some small Access developers I know

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