Help! I have a VBA program that searches contacts in Outlook folders.

With the new Outlook security, when contact folders are being accessed by
the program's code, the users are now getting an alert "A program is trying
to access e-mail addresses you have stored in Outook. Do you want to allow
this?"  They can allow access for a certain period of time, but this is
annoying because it will keep alerting them on subsequent occassions in the
future.

Is there anything else I can do to get around this message, or at least
change the wording so that it accurately reflects what is happening?

PS - I have digitally signed the VBA project. Shouldn't that in theory
suppress security-related messages?

Karen Walker

Digital signing has no effect on the Outlook object model guard security
prompts. See http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup.htm#autosec

If you're the administrator in an Exchange Server or HP OpenMail
environment, you can reduce the impact of the security prompts with
administrative tools. See http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/admin.htm.

If it's an application you wrote yourself, you can use one of these two
approaches to redo the program:

    -- Use Extended MAPI (see http://www.slipstick.com/dev/mapi.htm) and C++
or Delphi

    -- Use Redemption (http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/)

--

Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
     Teach Yourself Microsoft Outlook 2000 Programming in 24 Hours
     Microsoft Outlook 2000 E-mail and Fax Guide
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com