How to turn off mass email block in Outlook 2003?

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simon

Hello All,

I am using Outlook 2003 and since I am on the steering comittee of a
professional user group, I need to send out mass email to the group
occasionally. Outlook 2003 detected that I am sending mass email from my
contact list and therefore, it will pause every single time to ask me if I
want to continue. Our user group has more than 200 members and I do not want
to click "continue" for 200 times. So my question is that, is there a way to
turn this safety feature off? I look around the menu and options but I
cannot find it.

Any help will be very much appreciated.
 
No, you can't turn it off. What you can do is tell us what procedure you're
using to send the messages so that someone might be able to suggest a
solution. For example, mail merge to HTML format message won't product
security prompts.
 
Thanks for the reply. I tried to send the mass email to my user group
members in two ways:
1. I stored all the user group member contact information in SQL Server.
Then I wrote a little program to loop thru the dataset to send out email
using MAPI.
2. I created a email distribution list in Outlook 2003, then sent out the
email using the list.

Either way, I got the security prompt. You mentioned "mail merge to HTML
format message", can you tell me how to do that?

Thank you so much for the help.
 
Use the mail merge feature in Word and choose HTML as the message format
when prompted. You can automate mail merge programmatically designating a
SQL table or query as th esource.
 
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