Outlook Mail Merge no longer supports plain text emails

[Guest]

Hi,

Just venting here; I doubt anything will change as a result of this, but I
thought I'd get it out of my system!

On Monday I did an email merge in Outlook 2003. This was a very lengthy
procedure because between each message I got the dreaded 'Another program is
trying to send email' warning and delay between each message despite the fact
that the Mail Merge originated in Outlook.

I thought an upgrade from SP1 to SP2 might help, and I find out that SP2
apparently munges the ability to perform mailmerge on plain-text emails, and
yet on Monday I was able to do this.

And it doesn't fix the over-zealous email-sending warning bug. Great.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You can avoid the security prompts by generating HTML format messages from the merge. If the merge itself isn't working, please provide steps to reproduce the problem.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Alan W]

To avoid the over zealous E-Mail Outlook Message - you can use a product
called Click Yes V1.0.7 - See info at http://www.express-soft.com/mailmate
or E-Mail (e-mail address removed)

This would solve one annoyance.

ALAN W