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Outlook Security Dialog and Palm

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Now let me tell you, I loath this dialog as much as the next guy, however, I just discovered something appalling today.

Palm (the makers of the PDA etc) ship this application called Pocket Mirror (I think its third party?) that synchronizes Outlook with Palm handhelds like my wife’s Treo 600. I was shocked today when I watched as the dialog appeared and disappeared on my wife’s laptop. Yes, they are programmatically dismissing this dialog themselves. Rather than sign their code, or use Extended MAPI or bother to consult MSDN, they just decided, we’ll decide for the user. Nice.

 

Comments

  • Anonymous
    July 20, 2004
    This is somewhat unrelated, but how did you get Windows to look like this? Is that a Longhorn feature or something that can be used with WinXP?
  • Anonymous
    July 20, 2004
    sebmol> That's MediaCenter Royale Theme.
  • Anonymous
    July 20, 2004
    Huh, what are you guys talking about ;-).
  • Anonymous
    July 20, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    July 20, 2004
    Actually guys,
    I am also presented with that dialogue everytime i am syncing up my contacts. Is there a way to tell outlook accept this even though it is not signed...
  • Anonymous
    July 21, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    July 21, 2004
    Sorry, but we never did this on the Mac, and never would.
  • Anonymous
    July 21, 2004
    The real issue is: Why does Outlook allow this dialog to be programmatically manipulated? That defeats the purpose of the dialog in the first place.
  • Anonymous
    July 21, 2004
    Outlook does not. Any dialog in windows can be programatically scripted.
  • Anonymous
    July 23, 2004
    If you thought that was bad, then...
    http://www.contextmagic.com/express-clickyes/
  • Anonymous
    August 04, 2004
    Uh, well, ActiveSync for PocketPC shows this dialog; instead of "signing their code, or use Extended MAPI or bothering to consult MSDN..."
    Granted they don't hide it programatically, but...
  • Anonymous
    August 04, 2004
    It doesn't do this for me.
  • Anonymous
    August 16, 2004
    I'm afraid a lot of programmers seem to have a behaviour best described as 'path of least research'. They've found a way that nearly works, then they'll take whatever the minimal route is to get to the end goal.

    The irony is that they've usually made a rod for their own backs - it's typically a maintenance nightmare. Trying to circumvent any feature of a system or application usually bites you in the end.