How to suppress the Outlook security warning when sending

rbuser

Hi All,

Using RB 10.07, Delphi 2007, Outlook 2003. Printing reports to email as a
PDF attachment with the 'PreviewInEmailClient' property set to false.

Is there a way to suppress the Outlook security message 'A program is trying
to automatically send email on your behalf...' prompt?

It's not too troublesome for one or two emails but we are sending several
dozen at a time and it's a nuisance for the users. We can't really use
PreviewInEmailClient := True for the same reasons.

Thanks in advance.

Regards, Paul.

nicocizik

Hi Paul,

Unfortunately there is no way to suppress this message when using Outlook to
send emails. This message is Microsoft's security "solution" to any
malicious applications taking control of Outlook and sending unwanted emails
(spam, viruses) to others with their product.

One option would be to try using the TppSMTPIndy plugin which accesses the
email server directly.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

We are using

http://www.add-in-express.com/outlook-security/

Pro: works fine
Con: Dll, no source

hth

rbuser

Hi Guys,

Thanks for your answers.

It's not much of a 'solution' from MS is it? I'll have a look at using the
Indy module I think. There will be a big cost impact for one of our
customers if they have to buy something commercial such as the
add-in-express security tool.

Regards, Paul.

rbuser

I'm not affiliated to addinexpress but there are no runtime fees to pay...

Problem we had was that with Indy you can send an email but there's no
trace/log of it in the sent items of outlook etc...

hth Ilse

rbuser

Hi Paul
There is a product called Outlook Redemption. COM Library I think.
Have a look at http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/
Cheers
Dominic

rbuser

Hello Ilse.

I see. The mail does really need to be in the users Outlook 'Sent' folder.

So with addinexpress, is it a one off payment and then you can deploy it as
often as you want? Do you know if there is anything to install for each end
user PC or can it be distributed with or within our application?

Thanks for your help.

Regards, Paul.


Perhaps I will look at the

rbuser

Thanks Dominic,

Do you use (or happen to know if) Redemtion works with the Report Builder
email functionality. I don't mind some code to disable the security but I
don't want to have to re-write any of the mail handling from Report Builder
if possible.

Thanks, Paul.

nardmoseley

The ReportBuilder email architecture is open to creating additional plug-ins
that implement the SMTP functionality responsible for sending the email.

You can easily create additional SMTP plug-ins for RB. To create a new
plug-in, use one of the existing plug-ins as a starting point. They are
installed to RBuilder\Source\ppSMTPIndy.pas, ppSMTPMapi.pas,
ppSMTPOutlook.pas.


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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Hi Nard,

Thanks for pointing that out.

Presumably, the default must be SMTP (I've not looked at it too closely, it
just worked!). Does using the supplied Outlook plug-in still produce any
security warnings? I might move to that for simplicity's sake as all our
users are on Outlook anyway. We could then revisit the alternative
approaches at a later date if there is a demand for alternatives to Outlook.

Regards, Paul.

nicocizik

Hi Paul,

I believe when using the provided Outlook plugin, the security message will
also appear when directly sending emails. If there is a library out there
that allows you to send email with Outlook and bypass the security messages,
it should be fairly easy to create a new email plugin and integrate it with
ReportBuilder.

--
Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Hi Nico,

Thanks for that.

I'll see what's about and try it out.

Regards, Paul.

rbuser

Hi Paul
I don't actually use it, but I think it has its own methods and procedures
for performing Outlook OLE automation. It just somehow bybasses the SP1
security.
Dominic

rbuser

Thanks Dominic,

Since posting, I've changed over to using the built in IndyMail handling
which is actually better than using Outlook for volume mail production. It
works very well once it's set up correctly.

Regards, Paul.