HTML and Contact email merging

[Stuff]

Hi.

I am running Outlook 2000 and XP-Pro I am responsible for sending a
newsletter to a large group of contacts in my Outlook contact list. I am
using a local email server on my system to bypass my ISP.

I copy/paste an HTML document authored in FrontPage 2002 for the newsletter.

When I send an individual email, the received HTML works fine...as does
sending to an Outlook distribution list -- it goes through the server and
ends up where it belongs in HTML! These tests use the local server.

***** However, when I use Outlook's email merge, the sever "acts normal"
with the notification popup boxes, but every email ends up in Outlook's
Outbox. When I hit Outlook's SEND button, they all go. When they are
received, it is text format...what happened?????? *****

(Please note: I am not running the security patch to avoid the hideous
Microsoft fix that causes me to have to qualify every outgoing email,,,know
what I mean?)

Than-Q, I am appreciative of your input,
W. Howard Adams
--

"Before I end my letter, I pray Heaven to bestow
the best of Blessings on this House and all that shall
hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise
Men ever rule under this roof."
John Adams, in a letter to Abigail,
on his 2nd night in the White House.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

This is all well documented. Merges to electronic mail revert to plain text
in Outlook 2000.
HTML merges were not supported until Outlook 2002. They also bypass the
security prompt, by the way.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Office 2000 supports mail merge only to plain text format. In Office XP, you can choose the format as part of the merge.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers