sending bulk email gives me MAPI failures - HELP, please!

[Guest]

even in a group list, my outlook won't let me send one email to more than 50
recipients; merging - even with an email, so i'm only using outlook and no
other office prgm - makes outlook ask if i mean to allow another program to
send email via outlook FOR EACH EMAIL. i have a list of more than 300 to
send to!

if i don't click yes for each one, i get a MAPI failure message. how do i
override all this?

thanks!

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Your post is impossible to decipher. Explain more clearly what you are
trying to do, why you can't do it, and how you could possibly do a mail
merge with no other Office programs installed. Include versions. Explain
what a "group list" is.

 

[Guest]

thanks for your reply; microsoft outlook's contacts lets you create group
lists, or a group of email addresses under one heading (like "friends").
select the group list (which is kept like an individual email in contacts)
and the email goes to everyone on the list.

when i put more than 50 addresses in a group list, outlook rejects it,
saying there are too many.

to get past this, i created a subfolder to contacts which has all the email
addresses i wanted in the group list. i first tried to merge the list with a
word doc, but it prompts me to click yes for each of my 500 emails to allow a
program other than outlook to access email addresses in outlook. if i click
no, it tells me i have a MAPI failure. i'd like to avoid all that.

next i tried only working with outlook and no other programs. any way i try
it, i get one of the two issues explained above.

is that clearer? is there a way to send more than 50 emails in one fell
swoop without having to babysit it?

thanks for your help.
shauna

Your post is impossible to decipher. Explain more clearly what you are
trying to do, why you can't do it, and how you could possibly do a mail
merge with no other Office programs installed. Include versions. Explain
what a "group list" is.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

even in a group list, my outlook won't let me send one email to more than
50
recipients; merging - even with an email, so i'm only using outlook and no
other office prgm - makes outlook ask if i mean to allow another program
to
send email via outlook FOR EACH EMAIL. i have a list of more than 300 to
send to!

if i don't click yes for each one, i get a MAPI failure message. how do i
override all this?

thanks!

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

I'll assume you mean a Distribution List, then. The term "group list" is not
used in Outlook and could refer to a number of things.
First things first.
Outlook imposes no limit on the number of recipients in a DL. Only the mail
server does. So check with your provider for starters to see why their
restrictions are so narrow and what you can do about it.
Secondly, a mail merge to electronic mail is a nice way to get around any
limits on the number of recipients imposed by your provider. It will not
trigger the security prompt to which you refer unless you are no longer
using supported versions. State what versions you are using and how you set
up this mail merge.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

thanks for your reply; microsoft outlook's contacts lets you create group
lists, or a group of email addresses under one heading (like "friends").
select the group list (which is kept like an individual email in contacts)
and the email goes to everyone on the list.

when i put more than 50 addresses in a group list, outlook rejects it,
saying there are too many.

to get past this, i created a subfolder to contacts which has all the
email
addresses i wanted in the group list. i first tried to merge the list
with a
word doc, but it prompts me to click yes for each of my 500 emails to
allow a
program other than outlook to access email addresses in outlook. if i
click
no, it tells me i have a MAPI failure. i'd like to avoid all that.

next i tried only working with outlook and no other programs. any way i
try
it, i get one of the two issues explained above.

is that clearer? is there a way to send more than 50 emails in one fell
swoop without having to babysit it?

thanks for your help.
shauna

Your post is impossible to decipher. Explain more clearly what you are
trying to do, why you can't do it, and how you could possibly do a mail
merge with no other Office programs installed. Include versions. Explain
what a "group list" is.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

even in a group list, my outlook won't let me send one email to more
than
50
recipients; merging - even with an email, so i'm only using outlook and
no
other office prgm - makes outlook ask if i mean to allow another
program
to
send email via outlook FOR EACH EMAIL. i have a list of more than 300
to
send to!

if i don't click yes for each one, i get a MAPI failure message. how
do i
override all this?

thanks!