Fun with Outlook and MAPI

[Chris]

>> Alas, I dont think that there is much you can do to prevent the 
>> confirmation dialogs with Outlook's MAPI dll. MS added them in a 
>> service pack as an anti-virus measure, so no work-around. Not all 
>> clients show these anoying dialogs though. Thunderbird definately 
>> doesn't.
> There is actually a workaround. You're using Simple MAPI which has a 
> nice easy interface. The confirmation dialogs are only for Simple MAPI. 
> Using Extended MAPI can work around the problem but its a lot more tricky.
> See the initial discussion here: 
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/Python-win32/2160646
> 
> This code has now been included in pywin32 somehow but I can't remember 
> where and its late. Should also be a cookbook entry. Maybe Google can 
> help :-)

Cool.  I'll take a look an' see if I can get it to work.  MAPI has 
turned out to be a major PITA.  Especially when trying to learn it and 
Python at the same time. :)

Chris