Thanks! That did the trick. I finally got it to my 'Outbox' where I then had to manually delete ten invalid addresses in order to get it to finally send. Thanks for your help!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rmbl.org ----- Original Message ----- From: Walt Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: TechRocks Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 11:45 AM Subject: [support] Re: Batch E-Mails > >From my reading of what you do it all looks correct with the exception of > deleting [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the To line. Many mail programs will not > send mail if there is nothing in the To line (even though CC and/or BCC have > addresses). I generally fill in my email address or that of our information > email account. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Michele Simpson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 1:01 PM > > To: TechRocks Support > > Subject: [support] Re: Batch E-Mails > > > > > > Thanks for your help Dave, and your patience. > > Ok, here's what I do: > > In e-base I conduct a 'query', pull up a found set. > > I go to the 'output' window and select 'email'. > > I get a dialogue box: ...Delete cc/ps values..? I hit 'yes'. > > I get a dialogue box: ..Finished with replacement... I hit 'Ok'. > > I get the ' Text creation methods' window. > > I check the 'Create text from scratch' box. I hit 'next' on the wizard. > > I get the 'Edit email' window. > > I enter a subject on the subject line and the message text. I hit > > 'next' on > > the wizard. > > I get the 'Email sourcecode options' window. > > I hit 'No, proceed to next step'. I hit 'next' on the wizard. > > I get the 'Check email addresses...?' window. > > I hit 'yes, check email addresses'. I hit 'next' on the wizard. > > I get the 'invalid email addresses' window. I hit 'next' on the wizard. > > I get the 'Send email for found set?' window. > > I hit 'yes, send email now'. I hit 'next' on the wizard. > > I get a dialogue box: Send email as batch? I check the 'batch' box. > > I get a dialogue box: a text string of email address placed... on your > > clipboard...you must paste to bcc... > > I hit 'ok'. > > I get an Outlook email message window with my message text and subject > > already inserted and with [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the To: line. I delete > > that address from the To: line and paste my addresses to the bcc: > > line. ( I > > click on the bcc: line and hit ctrl-v). All 263 addresses are > > visible in the > > bcc: line. I hit 'send'. > > I get the e-base window: 'Email sending status' with the counts on it. It > > shows that 263 were sent. > > I hit 'next' on the wizard. > > I get the 'create contact records?' window. I hit 'no'. > > I get the 'summary screen' window, with recent settings. It shows 'create > > contacts' NO and 'send or print' YES. > > I hit 'done'. > > My Outlook window comes up. I look at the 'sent' box, 'outbox' and 'inbox' > > for the message. I don't see it. > > I hit 'send/rec' to connect with my ISP and send and receive new > > messages. I > > still don't see it. > > > > That's it. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > www.rmbl.org > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Dave Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: TechRocks Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 1:18 PM > > Subject: [support] Re: Batch E-Mails > > > > > > > >I'm running into problems e-mailing from e-base. I run through all > > > >the steps, hit send, paste the addresses to the bcc box in my e-mail > > > >program, hit send again and continue with the wizard til I'm done. > > > >All goes well, and e-base appears to send the message, but there's > > > >no sign of it in my Outlook Express 'out box' or 'sent item box' or > > > >'in box' (I added myself to the bcc list to test it). Is the message > > > >sent or stored elsewhere? Did I miss a step? > > > >Any suggestions?? > > > > > > It's not stored elsewhere, and moreover, ebase doesn't send the > > > message. Ebase processes the text for the message, subject, to and > > > from lines, and transfers control to your email client (in this case > > > Outlook). There is not enough detail in your message to be sure, but > > > what I see is that you elect to send a batch email, see the dialog > > > which says to paste the list of addresses to the bcc: field. Then you > > > open a new email message in Outlook and paste the list of addresses. > > > Do you at that time see the addresses? Do you then compose your email > > > message and send it using Outlook? > > > > > > Say more about exactly what you do, what dialogs you see, how you > > > respond, and what happens? > > > -- > > > -- > > > Dave Shaw H4 Consulting > > > tel: 206-954-7526 fax: 206-625-1338 > > > > > > ------------------ > > > Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account > > preferences, go to > > > http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and enter the > > email address you used to subscribe to the ebase support list:: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > ------------------ > > Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account preferences, go to > > http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and > > enter the email address you used to subscribe to the ebase > > support list:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > ------------------ > Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account preferences, go to > http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and enter the email address you used to subscribe to the ebase support list:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------ Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account preferences, go to http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and enter the email address you used to subscribe to the ebase support list:: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------
