I am using Win32::OLE to access my MS Outlook(XP) mail via command line. However, when I do, I get a warning prompt from Outlook ("Another program is trying to access email addresses you have stored in Outlook. Do you want to Allow this?"). I am trying to get around having to *allow* this process acces every time it runs. Any body know of a way to get around this? Is there a "--force" option I can use somewhere?

Furthermore, I would also like to display this information to a webpage (IIS Web service running as me w/ Admin rights). For some reason whilist browsing this script via browser (with added 'Content-type' etc, etc..) The script Just hangs and I don't get the warning prompt as I do when running the script from the command line. Any thoughts?

I know I shouldn't be serving anything over the web running as myself, I'm just playing around, testing, and wondering why this won't work ;)

Here is the code: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
# simplified version
use strict;
use Win32::OLE qw(in with);
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Outlook';

my $mailbox = "Mailbox - Silent11";
$Win32::OLE::Warn = 3;
my $outlook = Win32::OLE->new('OutLook.Application','Quit') or 
    die "Could not created outlook object."; 
my $ol = Win32::OLE::Const->Load($outlook);
my $inbox = $outlook->GetNameSpace("MAPI")->Folders($mailbox)->Folders
+("Inbox");


for (in $inbox->{Items}) {
    print "Subject : $_->{Subject}\n";
    print "Sender : $_->{SenderName}\n";
    print "Attachments : $_->{Attachments}{Count}\n";
    print "\n\n";
}

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-Silent11

In reply to --force Outlook to allow perl script access to my mail by silent11

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