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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.
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.