Behavior of Word mail merge to e-mail from Access

Hello - I worked up a very basic routine (code below) to mail merge to either a new Word doc or to e-mail, and I'm wondering if what I'm seeing is normal:

1) I'm getting prompted once about "A program is trying to access e-mail addresses...", and then again about "A program is trying to automatically send e-mail..." for EVERY e-mail in the mail merge result. Is this normal ??? Any way to prevent this?

2) It looks like these e-mail's just sit in my Outbox unless Outlook is open at the time I run the mail merge. Is this "by design"? Is there some way I can force the messages to go out automatically?

Thanks

Mark

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Public Function MergeIt(Dest As String)

    Dim objWord As Word.Document
   
    Set objWord = GetObject("C:\MailMerge\MailMerge.doc", "Word.Document")
   
    ' Make Word visible.
    objWord.Application.Visible = True
   
    ' Set the mail merge data source
    objWord.MailMerge.OpenDataSource Name:="C:\MailMerge\MailMerge.mdb", LinkToSource:=True, AddToRecentFiles:=False, _
       SQLStatement:="SELECT * FROM [tblMailMerge]"
   
    Select Case Dest
       Case "print"
           objWord.MailMerge.Destination = wdSendToNewDocument
       Case "email"
            ' Execute the mail merge.
            objWord.MailMerge.MailSubject = "Please Read me!"
            objWord.MailMerge.MailFormat = wdMailFormatPlainText
            objWord.MailMerge.MailAddressFieldName = "EMailAddr"
            objWord.MailMerge.Destination = wdSendToEmail
    End Select
             
    objWord.MailMerge.Execute
   
    Set objWord = Nothing
   
    MsgBox "Finished..."

End Function