I recently sent out a conference call announcement to several distribution
lists and would like to know how many people it went to so that I can monitor
participation percentage.

Treasury Analyst wrote:
> I recently sent out a conference call announcement to several
> distribution lists and would like to know how many people it went to
> so that I can monitor participation percentage.

Without Exchange admin access:
Easily? No, not really.
Roundabout:
1) Start a new message.
2) Put Blahblahblahblahblah in the cc field. This is to prevent an
accidental send.
3) Put the DLs on the To line.
4) Expand each DL.
5) With the cursor in the To field, hit Control - A (to select all) and
Control - C (to copy all)
6) Start Word
7) Paste in the text.
8) Replace all ; with paragraph marks to get each entry on its own line.
9) Check the document statistics for number of paragraphs (or lines).
That's the number of recipients.

Downside: If a dl is a dynamic DL, you won't be able to expand it. If a dl
has a hidden membership, you won't be able to expand it.

I'd wager there's also a SQL->Exchange method you could use, but I'm not as
well versed in that.

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f.h.