Mail Merge

[Guest]

I have my customers in my database and want to use the emails to send a mass
e mail. I used Word to do a mail merge and it wants to use Microsoft Outlook.
Our mail server is Outlook Express. Is there any mail servers that I can use
with my database emails (over 1,000) that I've stored in my database w/o
having to copy and paste them all into a mail server? I noticed also that if
you use Outlook, you can't do BCC. Any help here?

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

You cannot use OE for a mail merge. You must at least have a database for
the data source and Outlook for the transport.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have my customers in my database and want to use the emails to send
a mass e mail. I used Word to do a mail merge and it wants to use
Microsoft Outlook. Our mail server is Outlook Express.

No it's not. Outlook Express is a mail client. It is not a server.

Is there any
mail servers that I can use with my database emails (over 1,000) that
I've stored in my database w/o having to copy and paste them all into
a mail server?

You wouldn't use a mail server to perform this function.

I noticed also that if you use Outlook, you can't do
BCC.

Outlook is perfectly capable of using Bcc.

What "database" are you using? Mail Merge is capable of using some
databases as the contact source, such as Access, anything you connect with
the Data Connection WIzard, or any database with an installed OLE-DB
provider or ODBC driver.