I use Netscape, and my batch email problem is with our ISP - like Valerie. Our ISP
won't allow more than about 200 batch emails at a time. I paste the list into a
word processing program and create copies of my email, then I copy and paste about 200
names into the bcc of each email and send.
Rainie (By the way, I used to work for PP in San Antonio)
Sarah Standiford wrote:
> Valerie-thanks very much for your help with this...may well be the
> case...but I dont want going through another host to be the only solution!
> Does anyone else have experience with this problem?
> Thanks
> Sarah Standiford
> PP Northern New England
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: valerie ansted warden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 10:29 AM
> To: TechRocks Support
> Subject: [support] Re: Sending Batch Emails
>
> For us it was our phone company. They will not accept more than 100 emails
> at a time so we switched our email system to go through our web host and can
> send as many as we want. I concur with your tech Support response and we
> use Netscape for the batch email list. I have the new account set up only
> in Netscape and only to do the batch emails and use Outlook for everything
> else.
>
> Valerie Ansted Warden
> Georgia ForestWatch
> 4 River St., Ste. C
> Ellijay, GA 30540
> 706-635-8733
> www.gafw.org
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sarah Standiford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "TechRocks Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 10:19 AM
> Subject: [support] Sending Batch Emails
>
> > I am trying to send a batch email to 658 addresses. Each time i attempt
> the
> > send, i get an error message (something like) "Outlook has had an unknown
> > error, try restarting Outlook" but it begins the script anyway. I have to
> > cancel the send in order to stop a process that has continued over two
> > hours.....
> >
> > Any thoughts on where this problem is coming from? I have sent out smaller
> > batches (10-12 addresses) successfully.
> >
> > Our tech support seems to think Outlook just cant handle that many
> > addresses. Thanks
> >
> > Sarah Standiford
> > Planned Parenthood of Northern New England
>
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