The Buckster said:
I want to send an email to all 800+ persons in my Outlook Contacts.
However
when I try to make a new distribution list with all such 800+ contacts I
get
an error message that the distribution list has too many names. Other
than
making several distribution lists of much smaller size, is there anything
I
can do to send a blast email out to several hundred contacts at once?
Have you checked with your e-mail provider regarding their anti-spam quotas
as to how many maximum recipients can be specified per message? You'll be
lucky if they let you specify 50 recipients per message. You will need to
slice the mailing into much smaller counts. You could use Word's MailMerge
to send a separate message to each recipient but you could run into other
anti-spamming quotas enforced on your personal e-mail account, like how many
mail sessions are allowed per minute, how many messages you are allowed to
send per minute or hour. Also, MailMerge is slow because you will need to
send a separate message to each recipient, so instead of sending a list of
800 recipients to the mail server for 1 message, you instead end up sending
a list of 1 recipient to the mail server for 1 message and have to repeat
800 times.
Outlook is a personal e-mail *client*, not a bulk mailing service. Unless
you have a business account with your e-mail provider (which may or may not
be your ISP), your personal account will not allow spamming or bulk mail
volumes. For large volumes of e-mails, investigate bulk mail or listserver
services.
