Plenty of info on incoming unsafe attachments but I've yet to find one that addresses my query on outgoing Outlook items.
I'm running a script that's sending large volumes of emails over Outlook and ideally i'd like to let it chug away all weekend: however last time I tried it got stuck when Outlook gave a prompt asking if I was sure I wanted to send the message since it might contain attachments that were unsafe.
It's very inconsistent: probably one in a thousand emails causes this and it doesn't seem to have any relation to the extensions of the attachments; which are exclusively PDFs, Docx, rtf, xlsx, html, or images.
So I'm dying for a way to either suppress the message, or build in something into the macro to circumvent it entirely, but I've absolutely no idea where to start since (as I said) all the search hits I get are only applicable to incoming mail items.
Help?!
Thanks!
There are two aspects of sending emails in Outlook:
Outlook security prompts. "Security" in this context refers to the so-called "object model guard" that triggers security prompts and blocks access to certain features in an effort to prevent malicious programs from harvesting email addresses from Outlook data and using Outlook to propagate viruses and spam. Read more about that in the Outlook "Object Model Guard" Security Issues for Developers article.
"Outlook blocked access to the following potentially unsafe attachments" message in Outlook.
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I have a VBA function in our MS Access database that generates Outlook emails and sends them from a shared inbox.
Our company uses Azure Information Protection to protect documents. A label needs to be applied to each email before it is sent (e.g. Public, Business Sensitive, Internal).
Rather than having the user click the label 25 times as it pops up for each email, I am trying to apply it programmatically.
I get error code (-1248837627).
My solution was to grab the labels GUID and then apply it to the email as below. I came across other solutions such as using SendKeys but I prefer it to be a last resort.
With olMail
.To = olSendTo
.Subject = olSubject
.PermissionTemplateGuid = "XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXX"
.Permission = olPermissionTemplate
'And so on, the email function works great until the above two lines are added
Am I applying the .Permissions or .PermissionTemplateGUID improperly?
I have seen a similar approach to apply labels to Excel documents (grabbing and setting the guid).
The code you posted is used to specify Information Rights Management (IRM) permissions. Azure Information Protection is another story.
You need to add a user property in the following format:
"MSIP_Label_" & guid_internal_use_only & "_Enabled"
But I'd suggest exploring internals of Outlook mail items using MFCMAPI or OutlookSpy to find the exact solution. Try to set it manually then explore internals using these tools.
Although Im quite experienced with Excel VBA, Im not so much in regards of Outlook VBA (started yesterday, literally), so Im uncertain on how to get this simple task accomplished:
I created some coding to get a specific e-mail from the Inbox and then parse it and forward - that part is all good and well. Currently the code autodetects and retrieve the e-mail item using a set of parameters to filter through the Inbox. However, now I need to expand this code so that it can work with any e-mail item, and not only with that specific e-mail.
My idea is to get the user to input which e-mail item he/she wants to parse and forward, instead of getting the code to look in a specific place. How can that be done? The user input methods that I use regularly are InputBox (which returns a string) and GetOpenFileName, none of them suitable to pointing to a mail item within Outlook.
I thought about making the code work with the currently open e-mail item, but often the users have several e-mail items opened at once - forcing them to leave only one open for the code to work is not viable. Also, the code will be ran by people who have little to no IT expertise, so requesting things such as paths is also not an option. Is there any method for this?
I figured that working with Active MailItem is the way to go, as #niton suggested as well. I used a coding very similar to the one in this post, although I had to develop the handlers in case the user has other types of Objects active at the moment (AppointmentItems, for instance) or have multiple items selected. Final solution wasn't that much elegant - I was wishing for some sort of system input box where the user could point to the mail or something, but this works.
This is a theoretical question but any specific technical knowledge that could help will also be appreciated.
I am an IT Assistant with not much knowledge in programming (apart from EasyPattern and super-simple batch files) but have been given an opportunity to start getting into it by having been given a task to create a step in our document management system which is vaguely defined by the title of this question.
CONTEXT:
So, we have incoming faxes with short digit codes on them, these code correlate to identifying information in our database (relevantly; email addresses). In a watched folder environment we have software that upon auto-acknowledging these fax/image files being dropped into a designated incoming location (from a fax server) it initiates Microsoft Digital Imaging (MODI, runs in the background) to find these codes (using OCR, Optical Character Recognition) and places them into CSV files (one .csv file per code per fax page). Our database admin assures me that he can have the email addresses that correlate to the codes automatically placed into their correlating csv file.
GOAL:
It is from this point that I am being asked to find a way to have a universal unchanging email message ("We have received your fax") automatically sent to those email addresses. Upon a "way" being known, I am then to actually accomplish it.
QUESTION:
How to do this? As I said, a valid theoretical answer will suffice, for that will tell me how it can be done, which would in turn tell me what to learn, which would in turn tell me where to look.
WHERE I'M AT NOW:
I understand VBA to be a programming model within an 'event-driven' paradigm and that VBA programming projects are possible and supported in both Microsoft Outlook and Access. Does herein lie my answer? Can VBA used to accomplish this? (maybe auto import the email addresses from the csv file into the "To:" field of a outgoing email?) I'm hoping it'll be easier since the message can always stay the same (something along the lines of: We received your message). I'm reading two text books that introduce the reader to VBA in Access with one, and VBA in Outlook with the other.
I hope this message makes sense, this whole question might be naive, incoherent, or maybe even outright ignorant. But any patient and understanding response would be GREATLY appreciated.
You want something like this.
For posterity's sake, here is a summary of what it entails:
In Outlook, add a handler for the Application-level NewMailEx event.
Load each MailItem by its EntryID and handle it appropriately.
You would create your new email with Application.CreateItem(oMailItem), define its subject/body/recipients and then send it.
I am writing an Outlook addin that inserts content into an email, and I have a emailSent event that I would like send an event back to my server letting me know some content was shared.
Is there a way to attach some meta information to the email (or the word doc, which is what you are creating in outlook) so that I can grab that meta info so I can send it back to my server.
Right now, the only way I think I can do it is to search through the email on the send event looking for my content with regex and pull out the info i need, but that seems cumbersome, and also means I need to run the regex for every email sent, even when they haven't added my content.
There is the concept of MAPI user properties, which you can add to an Outlook item. Since Office 2007 the object model allows access to them. If your add-in must run also with older Outlook version, you should recurr to use Redemption (which I prefer also for higher office versions because it has more flexibility, albeit a greater footprint in distribution).
See UserProperties Interface on MSDN.
I'm interested in automating some reactive work I do when receiving certain emails in one of my email accounts. What I would like to have happen is:
On receipt of new email in the account
If the new email passes the "Need to React" criteria (based on body content and subject line)
3a. Scrape some content out of the email body and subject lines
3b. Populate a template form (e.g. Excel spreadsheet) with the scraped data
3c. Print the populated form and save the populated form in some folder (e.g. as a pdf)
What's the best (defined as easiest to implement by myself) approach / combination of technologies for achieving this automation?
i have not done exactly what you are asking, but I know Microsoft Outlook has a Rules engine that can take incoming messages, check for various content, and then do various actions including running applications and/or scripts.
You should look at Visual Studio Tools for Office if you are a c# person.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsto/default
You can write an Outlook add-on that can do pretty much everything you have outlined above.