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securityms-wordoutlookmailmerge

MS Word not trusted by Outlook?

  • a Delphi app automating Word mail merge and emailing via Outlook (Office 2007).
  • Windows XP2
  • Anti Virus Software Status -Valid
  • Trust Center Programmatic Access NEVER WARN ME.
  • (A different app not using Word but using Outlook emails without warning).

Yet Outlook Security Guard Warning Messages appear. 2 alerts per email x 700 email addresses = One angry customer.

Why? Without using a 3rd parry add-in, is there a way round this? Is there a way to merge one record and the run some delphi code then another record merge? I can then bypass Outlook altogether

Solution

  • Outlook has no idea where the call comes from. Outlook VBA and COM add-in are explicilty trusted, any external code is not.
    You will not see the prompt if you have up-to-date antivirus software.
    Otherwise your option are listed at http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=52
    In your case (Mail Merge), try to do the mail merge to a file, then mail the files in your code using the workarounds listed at the URL above.