Outlook 2002 not retaining password in Vista Home Basic

RobinT · Joined: May 18, 2007 Posts: 7

moka: I did find that if I tried to start outlookstart before the system had fully finished booting it did not work so I cannot put it in the startup folder. That is not really a problem, I just start it after I have had my first coffee!

As for the H, thats the Autohotkey icon and is what the outlookstart program looks like.

moka · Joined: May 22, 2007 Posts: 4

Help needed.
which kind of encoding should I tell notepad to use when I save as ahk?
does it matter at all?
I tried ANSI and unicode, I get the conversion done but the outlook still asks for the passwords?
Any suggestions?

RobinT · Joined: May 18, 2007 Posts: 7

moka: you have lost me there! Notepad is a basic text editor and only gives you the option of saving as a .txt file, ie standard text. If you are talkng about ANSI and Unicode then those are Internet Explorer options. Are you sure you are generating the ahk file in Notepad and creating standard text?

moka · Joined: May 22, 2007 Posts: 4

RobinT, The Vista's notepad has an Encoding option in the "save as" dialog box, I don't think this is the problem but who can say?
anyway I have done everything as writen, I have gotten to the outlookstart.exe Icon and it turns on the OUTLOOk , but the OUTLOOK still asks fo the passwords.

RobinT · Joined: May 18, 2007 Posts: 7

ok, email me your isp username and password and I will make the files for you. I will send you back the ahk and .exe files although I am not sure whether your email prog will block the attachment. Better still send me your ahk file and I will check it.

RobinT · Joined: May 18, 2007 Posts: 7

my email is

robin.tracey RemoveThis @virgin.net

TravelforChow · Joined: Apr 22, 2007 Posts: 2

Thank you, Coyote_HU!

I finally got my three email accounts up and running. It turns out for whatever reason I need to force an additional "send/receive" before activating the password dialogue boxes. So, after the "run outlook.exe" line, I had to reduce the sleeping time to 1000 and do the following before the password codes, though this does not seem to be a problem for others on the board.

WinWait, Inbox - Microsoft Outlook,
IfWinNotActive, Inbox - Microsoft Outlook, , WinActivate, Inbox - Microsoft Outlook,
WinWaitActive, Inbox - Microsoft Outlook,

Send, {F9}

Also, each of my three email accounts have different incoming and outgoing mail servers (thank you, Earthlink), which means that even after running the script to type the three passwords for the incoming mail, everytime I need to SEND an email, it needs a password again! So I had to create a smaller exe. with a portion of the code for the purpose of sending emails out.

All in all, both exe files are up and running, with desktop and keyboard shortcuts, and I can breathe much easier! Thank you Coyote_HU - couldn't have done it without you!

Scott517 · Joined: Jun 19, 2007 Posts: 1

I have followed the advice, using the script from Coyote, but I am having a problem. My password is being imported into the username box when Outlook prompts for the password. Any tips on what is wrong with my script?

Thanks,

Scott

thubert · Joined: Jul 03, 2007 Posts: 1

More thanks to Coyote_HU for his great script. I had to made some modifications to it to suit my configuration, and the following should help Scott517.

Coyote_HU's script is written making the following assumptions:
- You are using an English-language version of Outlook 2002;
- Your Outlook parameters direct it to open the "Inbox" folder at startup.

This was not the case on my PC, so I made the changes below (in red) to the .ahk script.
- By adding the "SetTitleMatchMode, 2" at the top of the script and deleting "Inbox - " everywhere, you make the script compatible with any folder Outlooks opens at startup.
- I changed "Enter Network Password" to "Tapez le mot de passe réseau" because my Outlook version is in French. Replace that by the title of the window that prompts you to enter your password in your language to solve the language compatibility problem.
- I added {Tab} before the password because the original script added the password to my Username field (Scott517 here you go). This simulates a hit on the Tab key, thus adding the password to the next field.

It works perfectly for me like this and I'm delighted cos I had absolutely no intention to pay for a more recent, less user-friendly version of Outlook just to save my passwords.

SetTitleMatchMode, 2
IfWinExist, Microsoft Outlook,
{
WinActivate, Microsoft Outlook,
ExitApp
}

Run OUTLOOK.EXE

Sleep, 10000

IfWinNotActive, Tapez le mot de passe réseau, , WinActivate, Tapez le mot de passe réseau,
WinWaitActive, Tapez le mot de passe réseau,
Gosub, SendPasword

IfWinNotActive, Tapez le mot de passe réseau, , WinActivate, Tapez le mot de passe réseau,
WinWaitActive, Tapez le mot de passe réseau,
Gosub, SendPasword

IfWinNotActive, Tapez le mot de passe réseau, , WinActivate, Tapez le mot de passe réseau,
WinWaitActive, Tapez le mot de passe réseau,
Gosub, SendPasword

WinWait, Microsoft Outlook,
IfWinNotActive, Microsoft Outlook, , WinActivate, Microsoft Outlook,
WinWaitActive, Microsoft Outlook,

Send, {F9}
ExitApp

SendPasword:

ControlGetText, UserName, RichEdit20A1

If UserName = YOUR_USERNAME
Send, {Tab}YOUR_PASSWORD{ENTER}

If UserName = YOUR_USERNAME
Send, {Tab}YOUR_PASSWORD{ENTER}

If UserName = YOUR_USERNAME
Send, {Tab}YOUR_PASSWORD{ENTER}

sleep, 1000

Return

bigmax · Joined: Jul 07, 2007 Posts: 1

Nice script ! but it works only with one account for me, even if removing /I and /b ... what can I try ? thanks

joelpj · Joined: Jul 26, 2007 Posts: 1

SlimboyFat · Joined: Aug 16, 2007 Posts: 1

Thanks to the OP for this code Smile

Just a few pointers that I have found whilst getting this to work...

If you are using 2 email accounts make sure you are using the 2nd code.

The 2nd code does have an error where you need to remove the end italics and end bold tags

If you are using 3 or more email accounts then use the 2nd code but copy and paste both the red sections of text again making sure you have removed the end tags in the 2nd red section. (the standard 2nd code works for 2 accounts so you will have to paste both red scrtions once for 3 email accounts, twice for 4 email accounts etc)

My Problem
It seems to be trying (and failing) to do a send and receive before it has entered the passwords. Once the passwords have been entered everything works fine.

Any ideas?

PJS · Joined: Aug 27, 2007 Posts: 1

I've seen most of the problems described above:
1. I have lots of e-mail accounts (8 in fact) so I want a reasonably general solution, so I go through the Tools -> Accounts -> View -> E-mail Accounts dialog box
2. My system tries to do a send/receive very quickly after startup, so I disable it immediately then re-enable it at the end

My script looks like the following - NB I'm a Novice AutoHotKey user so some parts may be naive.

Thanks to all above who have provided ideas.

Andrew010766 · Joined: Oct 13, 2007 Posts: 1

I saw your patch and it sounds great but how would this work is your outgoing server and password are differant than your incoming server and password? What script would work in this situation?

neo314 · Joined: Dec 08, 2007 Posts: 2

Everytime I start Outllook 2007, I have to enter my exchange username and password.

Any solution for entering that user name/password?

Please help. It's for the childeren. Rolling Eyes

neo314 · Joined: Dec 08, 2007 Posts: 2

Ok, I'll answer my own question. After learning a bit more about using AutoHotKey, here is the script I developed for exchange server login:

spod · Joined: Dec 17, 2007 Posts: 1

I've found a way for getting the outlook icon to replace the auto hot key one.

1. Move your outlookstart.ahk file from the desktop, say where your outlookstart.exe file is.

2. Create a shortcut of the outlookstart.ahk file and place this on the desktop.

3. Right click this shortcut and select properties, you'll see a change icon button, press this. Then browse for the file outlph.dll, select this and you will have the outlook icon albeit with a shortcut arrow on your desktop. You might want to remove the original from the desktop to avoid confusion as the original won't fix the password problem. You can also drag this to the quicklaunch bar and it will look completely normal.

The path to this file for me is: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\outlph.dll

Hope this help people who like things to look the same!

I also found I needed to add {tab} just before my password in the original script text otherwise it wouldn't work.

Cheers for the good thread. Wink

........blimmin' vista, up all night!

wingtong · Joined: Feb 12, 2008 Posts: 1

I've gotten POP to work fine. Thanks all. But has anyone tried using this on an IMAP account? I have had no luck with IMAP, any help would be appreciated.

question222 · Joined: Apr 29, 2008 Posts: 2

when i try and send mail i get a 505 error, authentication failed,
i think this is because the "Remember my password" check box is not checked.

Question, how can i modify the script to tick the checkbox that is located below the password box?

thanks for your help.

question222 · Joined: Apr 29, 2008 Posts: 2

anyone?