New Protection Method for VBA - How did they access Outlook MAPI

[darbid]

I recently saw this new product.

http://www.everythingaccess.com/vbMAPI.htm

I have two questions / remarks. Of interest to the people here who write VBA code for a living - I have not seen this type of security on a demo before. It might be a new method for people to use to secure their Access projects.

Of more interest to me is how did they access MAPI (Extended MAPI) I would never have imagined that I would see code in a VBA project that controls this low level MAPI. I was always told and have read that only C++ does this.

Of course I make these questions / remarks in the interests of learning something new (especially on the question of how they did it) I am not proposing copying their code and breaching any intellectual property rights. But I imagine that if they can do it then so can I.

I say this as they are selling this code and not offering it for free.

 

[darkstar257]

It seems like this Security Evader software is referring to the Outlook security prompt when you try to use it to send out emails.

There seems to be a general method on these forums of using the CDO 1.21 library to send out emails using the SMTP server and thus avoiding the Outlook security prompt.

 

[darbid]

well yes it is advertised as such. But the point there is it uses MAPI (Not Simple MAPI) which is what we use in VBA and VB.net and C#. This is the low level Outlook stuff and microsoft did not build in the security measures to this.

 

[kar]

I'm really interested in this topic too, if somebody got some answers please post'em I'll too.