How do I send a newsletter to > 100 people?

[cokecan]

Hi

I'm using Outlook 2003 on WinXP Home. I don't use exchange just
personal folders.

I have a genuine need to send a newsletter to a growing team and the
list will soon exceed 100 people.

Is there a limit set to the size of a distribution list either by
Outlook, ISPs (in general) or by the actual email protocol? Am I going
to have problems later? More than 1 person has told me they have to
split their contacts into groups of 100 or less.

As a related question, I'd like to be able to have Outlook send the
emails individually rather than as a single email with multiple
recipients.

Is this possible? I guess it would be with VBA somehow, something I
might have a go at. Any links would be helpful.

Many thanks in advance
Cokecan

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have a genuine need to send a newsletter to a growing team and the
list will soon exceed 100 people.

Is there a limit set to the size of a distribution list either by
Outlook, ISPs (in general) or by the actual email protocol?

I don't know of any size limit for Outlook with a distribution list (where I
work, we have one with 1,200 people in it), but there certainly isn't any
limit as far as the SMTP protocol is concerned.

ISPs often limit the number of recipients to 50 or 100 per message.

A true Email mailing list (like that maintained by LISTSERV, MAJORDOMO, or
even Yahoo! Groups) sends one message per address so that there is never a
problem with how many recipients there are per message, since there is never
more than one. Outlook, however, expands a distribution list into the list
of individual members when it sends the message, so that the To header will
contain all of the names and only a single message will be sent. I just
tried this to verify that what I say is true. Thus, using an Outlook
distribution list, if your ISP limits the number of recipents on a single
message, it will affect Outlook.
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Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
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