Distribution List - sending

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I am trying to send a Distribution List I have created to my colleagues - it
will not drag from Contacts to the body of the email message. I cannot copy
all and paste into the body either. I seem to be unable to do anything with
it except use it as an email address.
 
Try attaching it as an item to your e-mail message. If you use Outlook as
your e-mail editor, go to Insert | Item, browse to your contact folder and
then to the DL, and click Insert. If you use Word as your e-mail editor, the
paperclip icon on the e-mail toolbar has an arrow on it -- click the arrow
and you'll see the Item option there.

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Jocelyn,

Does the recipient HAVE to have Outlook for this to work? For example, if
the Recipients have Outlook Express will it work?

thanks,
Ron
 
rgraham1 said:
Does the recipient HAVE to have Outlook for this to work?
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Yes. A DL must be send as an attachment to a Rich Text message and only
another Outlook can receive Rich Text messages and do anything reasonable
with them.
 
I'm trying to send a message to a distribution list and I get a error message
: "Too many recipients"
I have 120 contacts in my list. Is it too much ? and why ?
There is a limit ?
Thank you for a response as soon as possible.
 
Regsam said:
I'm trying to send a message to a distribution list and I get a error
message
I have 120 contacts in my list. Is it too much ? and why ?
There is a limit ?
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Outlook imposes no limit. Your ISP does. Talk to them.
 
I understand how to create and attach the distribution list to the email, but
I am struggling to do anything meaningful with it at the other end! If I do
as Jocelyn suggests, it attaches to the email fine. The recipient can open it
and it produces a list (which is also fine). My problem is you can only save
it as a message (.msg). Is there a way to add these to contacts? I tried
sending as a VCard and it attaches as a text; I then renamed the .txt to .vcf
and it brought up an error message. Am I missing something? Any help
gratefully received.

Dave
 
I understand how to create and attach the distribution list to the email, but
I am struggling to do anything meaningful with it at the other end! If I do
as Jocelyn suggests, it attaches to the email fine. The recipient can open
it
and it produces a list (which is also fine). My problem is you can only save
it as a message (.msg). Is there a way to add these to contacts? I tried
sending as a VCard and it attaches as a text; I then renamed the .txt to
.vcf
and it brought up an error message. Am I missing something? Any help
gratefully received.
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Drag the attached DL to your Contacts folder.
 
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