'How to set classification of an email automatically?

I have the following powershell script:

$Outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application
$Mail = $Outlook.CreateItem(0)
$Mail.To = "[email protected]"
$Mail.Subject = "Hello"
$Mail.Body ="World"
$Mail.Send()

But when I execute it I have to select classification of the email manually: there appears a TITUS pop up with a the "Select Classification" title select box containing the following items: Public, For Internal Use Only and Private. I have to select an item and click "OK", after that the email is sent.

The script is supposed to be a job that gets run on schedule, so I don't want to interact with the script at all.

I have already walked through the whole msdn page of MailItem but I didn't come across anything similar to Classificaiton. What did I miss?

I am not an administrator of the server, so I don't have access to change anything.

PS: I selected the C# tag just because C# has the same API to interact with Outlook

c++sharp.netvbapowershelloutlook


Solution 1:[1]

Firstly, Outlook, just like any other Office app, is not designed to be used in unattended scenarios. It can and will display modal prompts out of the blue.

Secondly, to send a message, you can use straight SMTP, EWS, Extended MAPI (C++ or Delphi only), or Redemption (I am its author - its RDO family of objects wraps Extended MAPI and can be accessed for many language).

In your particular case, it sure looks like a custom third-party addin displaying a dialog box.

Solution 2:[2]

The mail object is not able to set the classification of the email object. If you pipe the object to Get-Member, you will see that there is no changeable property for the classification and/or a method to change it. You can find this by running the following command:

$Mail | Get-Member

Additionally, if you look at the list of properties there is not one that looks related to classification. 

$Mail | Format-List

This blog post will probably help you, but it seems more complex than the solution you're looking for. This one utilizes Exchange instead of the Outlook client.

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