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Several years back we created a VB application that would pull user PTO information from a backend system and send out status emails to each of the users on a monthly basis. The number of users is in the hundreds. This worked well using Outlook 97.

Now that we've moved to Office 2007 there are problems. I guess Outlook '07 has some sort of spam filtering and insists that we confirm each of the emails going out.

Is there a way to disable this filter from within VB?

I am also leaning towards reworking the script in powershell if that will give me better access.

Suggestions / Recommendations would be most appreciated.

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I don't know enough to "answer", but it occurs to me that the best approach could be to bypass Outlook. Aren't there ways to use SMTP directly? – tomjedrz May 1 '09 at 19:04
true. The problem is that I have a list of users Outlook Aliases. I haven't found a way to use SMTP directly without first resolving the Outlook Alias – jdiaz May 1 '09 at 21:26
Please change flags. Doesn't look like this has anything to do with exchange or powershell, but needs Outlook and VP as the question appears to be "Is there a way to disable this filter from within VB?" sorry, I can'tedit yet or I'd help out. – slipsec May 1 '09 at 22:33

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There is lots of information about the Outlook Model Guard. In Outlook 2003 you had very few options. With Outlook 2007 Microsoft offered alternatives including the option to turn the OMG off. I write code for both OL2003 and OL2007 and so I can't take advantage of the OL2007 options; Many developers use Redemption, which is an outstanding library that began as workaroud to the OMG but which has become a much more mature product since and has long offered functionality that was only added to the Outlook object model in OL2007.

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+1 for focusing on the 2007 part. We have a mixed environment here too so I often focus too much on the limitations of 2003. – EBGreen May 1 '09 at 18:21

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