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

Giles Brown giles_brown at hotmail.com
Thu Aug 31 06:51:08 EDT 2006


Tim Golden 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.
> 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!

Can't remember the details, but last time  I looked (a year ago) you
could avoid this if you changed a setting for the user at the exchange
server.  I found this out by doing a bit of googling and
can't remember what I did, but managed to solve the same problem.

Giles




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