Outlook Warning

[DChalom]

How do you turn off the outlook warning that you are accessing Outlook through FoxPro?

Dorian C. Chalom

 

[Mike Gagnon]

A quick look at faq184-1856 and faq184-1156 might help you.

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[MarciaAkins]

Hello Dorian.

This problem is caused by the Draconian Security Patch from H*ll which was installed with Office 2000 SP2 and later. There are a couple of ways to get around it:

1. Download “Outlook Redemption", a DLL written by Dmitry Streblechenko, a Microsoft Outlook MVP, which implements the Extended MAPI interfaces to Outlook. It is available for download at

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

and is free unless you are distributing it in commercial software, in which case it costs $199.99.

2. Download “Express Click Yes” at

http://www.express-soft.com/mailmate/clickyes.html

It comes with Visual FoxPro sample code and it is free.




Marcia G. Akins

http://www.TightlineComputers.com

 

[Mike Gagnon]

Dorian

And to add to Marcia's suggestions

3. Don't use Outlook. There are other methods of sending e-mails through CDO, SMTP etc...

Mike Gagnon

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[DChalom]

I want to use Outlook to give the user the option of saving the original emails in Outlook. But funny you should bring this up, I also want to include a way they can use this program with POP3 directly, thus bypassing Outlook.

Dorian C. Chalom

 

[Mike Gagnon]

Dorian

If you look at faq184-1769, the portion titled "Sending a simple message (no attachement)", show you how to use CDO to send a message with a parameter to permit the message to be saved in the Sent Items folder.


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[DChalom]

I need more then to save it in the sent folder of Outlook. I need to be able to create a folder for it if one does not already exist, and then save the email to that folder.



Dorian C. Chalom

 

[Mike Gagnon]

Dorian

I need more then to save it in the sent folder of Outlook. I need to be able to create a folder for it if one does not already exist, and then save the email to that folder.

Then I see a few options.

[ol][li]Remove the security patch the pops up the warning message. This isn't a VFP issue, but their are discussions on the Net about this option, as VFP automation of Outlook isn't the only platform that encounters this problem.[/li]
[li]Another option is to downgrade Outlook, to the point prior to the patch. This is tricky with the automatic updates.[/li]

[li]Use the suggestions above to bypass the warning messages.[/li]

[li]It is possible to access the Outlook folders using CDO.[/li][/ol]


Mike Gagnon

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[DChalom]

Please point me in the direction of CDO....

Dorian C. Chalom

 

[Mike Gagnon]

Dorian

This might get you started

http://www.cdolive.com/cdo4.htm#InfoStores

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[DChalom]

The InfoStore Object is read only and does not allow you to create folders, something I will need to be able to do.

Dorian C. Chalom

 

[Mike Gagnon]

The InfoStore Object is read only and does not allow you to create folders, something I will need to be able to do.

InfoStore is one step too high in the hierarchy; you need to go down one step to the RootFolder level. That will allow you to create a folder.

oSession = CreateObject("MAPI.Session")
oSession.logon()
oInfo=oSession.GetInfoStore()
oNewFolder=oInfo.RootFolder
oNewFolder.Folders.add('my new folder')

Mike Gagnon

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