How do I slow Outlook Down?

[Alan Brown]

Odd question I know, but is there a way to control the number of emails sent
out per minute by Outlook. I have a client who does a personalised mail
merge once a month to over 5000 people. They are personalised in ACT! 8.0
and contain details of venues and seminars that the addressee is going to
attend.

The problem is that a large number of 451 error messages are being returned.
I've had a look at the headers and they are being stopped at their ISPs
server.

The ISP is being very cagy about telling me if they have a spam prevention
filter that limits the number of emails to X per minute. Obviously if the
number became known spammers would send X-1 per minute.

I am pretty sure that this is the case as when the mailing is split into 26
smaller mail merges, one per the first letter of the surname, it works fine.
So it looks like their computer and high speed ADSL line can process more
outgoing emails that their ISP will allow.

Is there a way to restrict Outlook to X emails per minute? They don't really
care how long it takes, the big problem is to go back and select several
hundred individual people to do another mailing.

Thanks


Alan Brown

 

[BillR [MVP]]

The method you have discovered of doing smaller merges might be the better
of a few options.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

No option to throttle like this and the first workaround I can think of is
to loop the items thru IIS's SMTP virtual server. (Basically user sends to
SMTP VS [localhost] and it it turn uses the ISP mail server as a smart
host.)

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

outlook can't do it, but at least one addin can throttle the messages - but
I suspect using iis to do it might be better because you'll be offloading
the messages and not tying up outlook.

See http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail.htm#massmail

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[Chuck Davis]

Alan,

Check with your ISP. Mine required a Commercial account (vs. residential) a
fixed IP address and a Bulk Mail permit. The permit specifies no more than
1,000 at a time and then only between certain late night hours.