Apr 20
I worked at a company where a majority of error notifications from our batch programs was
handled by e-mail. This turned out to be a pretty good system
until the dreaded security patch for Outlook arrived on the
scene. It essentially neutured Outlook as you counld no longer
send message from a script (VBA or even Visual Basic) without getting a
pop-up box. Brilliant solution and quite elegant as it fixed the
problem immediately and finally (well kind of). However, those of
us who came to rely on Outlook to do certain things, like send our
error messages and process communications pulled our hair out and
nashed our teeth.
Recently I have come upon a nice hack to get the functionality of Outlook back.
http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/
This hack will let you use a similar object model to the original one
without the security restrictions plus there are some additional
properties and methods that the original object model did not
have. Well worth looking at if you want to automate Outlook.
