Monks,

Unfortunately, today I come to profane your doorstep with a question regarding a warning I get when accessing my Outlook mailbox using Mail::Outlook. Alas, I'm sure it's not this spiffy module's fault at all, but rather the wonderful M$ security patches. The actual message is:

"A program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in Outlook. Do you want to allow this? If this is unexpected, it may be a virus and you should choose No."

I post here in hopes that I can get an answer that a humble perl hacker can understand with a minimum of the VBA COM gobbledygook.

The reason I'm using this module is to make a cool new rules system for Outlook in Perl. I'd appreciate pointers to other similar systems for other email clients so that I can use a common file/database format for defining rules, etc. Outlook's builtin rules aren't entirely satisfactory. I had a nice solution called Message Executive that worked well, but it's not being updated any longer and is now showing signs of age.

I'm also doing this because I thought it'd be a nice way to exercise (or is that exorcise) some ideas I got during reading HOP. However, I need to get past this source of frustration with the warning. I'd be grateful for anything that gets me off the dime on this one.

In reply to Outlook Warning by geekondemand

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