Sending message to Windows Contact Group

G

Guest

I mail a newsletter to over 100 people. In Outlook I just selected a
distribution list, attached the file and hit "Send". Or if I wanted, I could
select the list, open it in my "Create Mail" screen and delete anyone I did
not want to send it to.

In Windows Mail, I get a "too many recipients" error. I called my ISP and
they said Windows Mail is only capable of sending to 25 or fewer recipients
at a time. So I tried to select the list and choose 25 at a time, but I
cannot open the list in the "Create Mail" folder. So I thought, fine, I'll
just open the contact group, select 25 and send them an email. But I don't
see that option. I can do it within the larger Contacts folder, but not
within the Contact Group.

So I ended up having to choose the whole group, hit Send, wait for the error
message, and open it from the Outbox, where it then magically exppanded the
group just like in Outlook so I could delete all but 25 and resend the email.
I had to go through this whole procedure five times in order to send to email
to all of my group. It took me over a half hour to do what I used to do in
about three minutes. And that's not counting the several hours I spent
troubleshooting and figuring out the workaround.

Is Windows Mail really as lame as it seems to be? Or are there ways I don't
know about to do the simple things Outlook Express could do?

And while I'm at it, why is this mail program so slow? Even a standard email
takes a few seconds to send rather than being instantaneus like Outlook or
Express. Attach a 1MB file and it takes close to a minute.
 
J

Julian

Eugene said:
I mail a newsletter to over 100 people. In Outlook I just selected a
distribution list, attached the file and hit "Send". Or if I wanted, I
could
select the list, open it in my "Create Mail" screen and delete anyone I
did
not want to send it to.

In Windows Mail, I get a "too many recipients" error.

Forget Windows Mail... it's redundant.

Use this instead...

http://get.live.com/betas/maildesktop_betas
 
G

Guest

So is Windows Live Mail an upgrade to Windows Mail? Will all my emails,
settings and contacts transfer?
 
J

Julian

Eugene said:
So is Windows Live Mail an upgrade to Windows Mail? Will all my emails,
settings and contacts transfer?

More a replacement than an upgrade, and yes,
when you install WLM it will adopt WM settings
 
G

Gary VanderMolen

I am curious about the error message you got, whether it came from
WM or from the mail server. It would have been nice if you had
included a copy of that error message.

Gary VanderMolen
 
F

Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM

Eugene said:
So is Windows Live Mail an upgrade to Windows Mail? Will all my emails,
settings and contacts transfer?

No, it's not an upgrade.
It eliminates some options from WinMail, but it does some things WinMail
does not do. I consider what it leaves out more important than what it
adds. Every time I have installed it it has imported all accounts and
messages without removing anything from WinMail. It does take over all
email shortcuts, though.
 
C

Charles W Davis

I'm a bit confused. You have posted to Windows Mail, and you talk of
Outlook. If you truly have Office Outlook, use the Mail Merge function. It
will send to each recipient an individual message. You will avoid the ISP's
limits. However,they may also have a per minute limit. I send 1,500 e-mails,
but have a Commercial account and have been registered as a Bulk Mail
"business." Still I can send only 350 per message until 11:00 p.m. when the
limit is raised to 1,000.
 
G

Guest

Sorry for the confusion. I only mentioned Outlook to say that it worked fine
with that program, and not with Windows Mail.
 
G

Guest

Sorry, I did not save the error messge -- I had to click out of it to
continue, but I believe it was error #252, and it said "too many recipients".
It listed the name of one of the recipients, but oddly enough it was not the
26th recipient on the list.
 
G

Gary VanderMolen

As I suspected, that error message did not come from Windows Mail,
it came from the mail server. AFAIK, Windows Mail has no limit on the
number of recipients.
So, either your Outlook was sending to a different server, or it was
using its mail merge function.

Gary VanderMolen
 

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