Recipient Quantities

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Jane

Hi,

I have 2 questions:

1. When I create a distribution list (which I do because
it is not possible to just select e-mail addresses and
avoid fax numbers appearing in the name list), I am
limited by the number of names that appear in the list.
Can this be avoided? I'm needing to have several groups,
even though I'm only sending about 400 e-mails. I've done
it alphabetically, but can't tell how many are in there
and how many more I can put in etc.

2. Is there a way to count recipients of an e-mail?

Thanks,

Jane
 
Your ISP dictates how many recipients are allowed per message along with
dictating other quotas, like how many messages you send per day (which
is an aggregate of all messages sent and not just a count of each unique
messages sent to N recipients), your disk space, and maximum bandwidth
consumption per day or month. Contact your ISP to determine your quota
maximums.

If your bulk mails remaining under the daily quota maximums but you hit
the per-message quota maximum then slice up the list into smaller lists.
Or gets a business account with your ISP to slam out more bulk mails.
Or pay for a listserver service.
 
I didn't see anything in the Outlook rules (for sending messages) that
looks like it could be used to count messages. If there had been a
clause like "mark it as unread" then I might've suggest putting a copy
of the message in a "counting folder" with the "mark it as unread" so
you could see the folder get bolded along with an "(n)" count affixed.
Alas, I don't see how you could do this with a rule (which would also
consume more disk space for the duplicate messages in the counting
folder and which you would have to clear before each bulk mailing).

Maybe some utility would do what you want; try looking at
http://www.slipstick.com/. Or maybe someone knows a script that does
the counting so you could use the "perform <custom action>" clause in a
rule, but I don't know if the rule would fire for the *one* message sent
to multiple recipients (you might have to use Word's Mail Merge to send
separate e-mails containing the same message so the custom action would
execute on each copy of the e-mail).
 
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