Outlook 2003 and ACT! 6

[yml87]

I have ACT! 6 Mail linked up with my Outlook 2003 and everything works fine. The only issue is an Outlook message pops up that says "A program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in Outlook. Do you want to allow this?" YES or NO. This message appears everytime I open ACT! 6 Mail for EVERY SINGLE E-MAIL and I always click yes but it gets ridiculous clicking yes to every single email and everytime I want to open ACT! 6 mail. Has anyone here experienced this issue?

[Martee]

Heh, I just had to deal with a similar issue a few weeks ago ...
Here's the problem: Later versions of Outlook (2000 SP2, XP, and 2003) introduced new 'security' features which are designed to prevent viruses from reading the contents of your inbox, your contacts, and so on. When a program tries to access Outlook using Outlook's object model, it pops up a message box and asks for confirmation.

Unfortunately, the only solution is to fix ACT!. Specifically, it needs to use Extended MAPI, not the Outlook object model, for Outlook integration. You'll have to get in touch with the company that makes ACT! and see if they have a fix. If not, you're pretty much out of luck. There are some other hacks, such as a program which automatically clicks 'yes' in the warning dialog, but these aren't really acceptable fixes.

Oh, one other thing: If you are connecting to an Exchange server, this security setting can be disabled on the server.

[yml87]

Thanks Martee,

Too bad I'm not using exhange. I guess I just have to live with it.