>Hello,
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>I have an application that generates e-mail to members of our educational community, giving them a report of information on file for them. When the operator uses the menu option for this procedure, th e-mails are created automatically and placed in the operator's Outlook Outbox to be sent on the date/time the operator has specified.
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>My problem is that Outlook 2000 now incorporates a security feature that stops the sending of an e-mail created by another program (VFP in this case), informs the user that this is happening, and waits 5 seconds before allowing the user to answer "Yes" to sending the e-mail. That's a long time when sending 300 e-mails that were intended to maximize efficiency!
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>Can anyone tell me how I can bypass this "feature" of Outlook without having to reinstall it? I'd also be happy to hear suggestions of other ways to e-mail without having to use Outlook (even though it must remain the default mail client on the computer).

I've had that problem, and the answer was to use anything else except Outlook. Since we already had an IDS Mail ActiveX control, we used that. The trouble with that one came up when we wanted the mails to originate from support@company.com, not the current user. That's where we hit the wall, because it uses the current user's credentials, and won't authenticate anyone else. Also tried Rick Strahl's SMTP utility from wwipstuff, with the same result. As long as you don't want to have a special sender, any such utility will do. There are a couple of downlowads around here, pretty much any one of them would work, and you don't have to uninstall Outlook.