Sending e-mail without opening Outlook or new message window

[Buut]

What is the process called when a program accesses Outlook and sends an
e-mail without opening Outlook or its New Message window? I am trying
to search to see why one of our programs accesses the mail system,
sends a message, but the message never gets to the Outbox. And there
are no errors.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

A virus?

Seriously, you need to provide some details for anyone to even hazard a
guess. Like the version of Outlook, using Exchange or POP3, what program is
sending, and how you KNOW it is sending.


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After furious head scratching, Buut asked:

| What is the process called when a program accesses Outlook and sends
| an e-mail without opening Outlook or its New Message window? I am
| trying to search to see why one of our programs accesses the mail
| system, sends a message, but the message never gets to the Outbox.
| And there are no errors.

 

[Brian Tillman]

What is the process called when a program accesses Outlook and sends
an e-mail without opening Outlook or its New Message window? I am
trying to search to see why one of our programs accesses the mail
system, sends a message, but the message never gets to the Outbox.
And there are no errors.

Depending on the method the program uses, I can imagine a message might not
appear in Outbox. Does the message appear in Sent Items?

 

[Buut]

Sorry, here's the detail. Outlook 2003 running on Exchange 2003. The
program that sends out the e-mail is a proprietary application that
does construction estimating. It sends a letter (as a Word attachment).
When it attempts to send the message you get the security popup asking
if you want to allow it to access Outlook. I click YES for 5 minutes
and it looks like the process completes. However, no message in the
Outbook or Sent folder. When it worked it will show up in the Sent Item
folder.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Sorry, here's the detail. Outlook 2003 running on Exchange 2003. The
program that sends out the e-mail is a proprietary application that
does construction estimating. It sends a letter (as a Word
attachment). When it attempts to send the message you get the
security popup asking if you want to allow it to access Outlook. I
click YES for 5 minutes and it looks like the process completes.
However, no message in the Outbook or Sent folder. When it worked it
will show up in the Sent Item folder.

You may find this tool handy:
http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/security/