How many contacts will outlook allow???

[Guest]

Iam using Office 03 and need to add about 2000 contacts for a Legal e-alert
email. So....... I need to find out how many contacts will outlook hold and
what kind of impact will it have on my exchange server.

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

You can have at least 65535 items in a folder so no problem there but your
mail server may not like an item with 2000 contacts in the To/CC/BCC
field(s).

See if any of the tools here will help:
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail.htm

 

[Brian Tillman]

Iam using Office 03 and need to add about 2000 contacts for a Legal
e-alert email. So....... I need to find out how many contacts will
outlook hold and what kind of impact will it have on my exchange
server.

A folder can hold about 64 thousand items. Sending to that many people at
one time, however, may be problematic. Best to use a mailmerge.

 

[Guest]

Vince and Brian....
thanks for your help.......

You can have at least 65535 items in a folder so no problem there but your
mail server may not like an item with 2000 contacts in the To/CC/BCC
field(s).

See if any of the tools here will help:
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail.htm

 

[Guest]

Could I put them all in a distribution list....?

A folder can hold about 64 thousand items. Sending to that many people at
one time, however, may be problematic. Best to use a mailmerge.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Could I put them all in a distribution list....?

That I don't know, but mailmerge is still better, even if you can.

 

[Guest]

I have one distribution list that will work fine and one does not and comes
back with the error "No transport provider was available for delivery to
this recipient."
I can email the address individually and they all go through.

 

[ThisIsAnfield]

I have the same issue as Buckwheat, whereby i can send emails individually to
everyone on a distribution list but when i come to send using the
distribution list it comes back with error 'No transport provider was
available for delivery to this recipient'
It was fine last week so why would this happen now? Any ideas?

Appreciate any help!!