J
Jane Carnall
I used to use Outlook 2000 to send a mass e-mail to everyone on our
subscriber's list, once a week. I'd hung on to Outlook 2000 even though
everyone else in our office had upgraded, because Outlook 2003 didn't seem to
have a means of letting me easily and quickly send a mass plain text e-mail
newsletter to everyone on our mailing list.
Finally, I had to upgrade. And the situation proved as bad as I'd thought it
would be: I ended up sitting for two hours clicking Yes on the little popup
box that says "A program is trying to send e-mail on your behalf. Do you want
to allow this? If this is unexpected, it may be a virus and you should choose
No." And every 10 minutes, it stopped again and asked me am I sure I want to
let Word access Outlook for another 10 minutes.
If I'd been willing to inflict an HTML e-mail on our subscribers, I could
have sent it quickly, but I wasn't willing to do that - a significant
minority of our subscribers had made it clear that they did not want to
receive HTML e-mails. So, plain text it is.
The temporary solution will have to be downloading an open source e-mail
application that will let us continue to do what Microsoft is
unwilling/unable to allow us to do - send plain text mail merges.
The long-term solution would be for Microsoft to allow future versions of
Outlook to default to plain text, and to let users send plain text mail
merges without this endless button-pushing.
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suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...6fc8968a1&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.general
subscriber's list, once a week. I'd hung on to Outlook 2000 even though
everyone else in our office had upgraded, because Outlook 2003 didn't seem to
have a means of letting me easily and quickly send a mass plain text e-mail
newsletter to everyone on our mailing list.
Finally, I had to upgrade. And the situation proved as bad as I'd thought it
would be: I ended up sitting for two hours clicking Yes on the little popup
box that says "A program is trying to send e-mail on your behalf. Do you want
to allow this? If this is unexpected, it may be a virus and you should choose
No." And every 10 minutes, it stopped again and asked me am I sure I want to
let Word access Outlook for another 10 minutes.
If I'd been willing to inflict an HTML e-mail on our subscribers, I could
have sent it quickly, but I wasn't willing to do that - a significant
minority of our subscribers had made it clear that they did not want to
receive HTML e-mails. So, plain text it is.
The temporary solution will have to be downloading an open source e-mail
application that will let us continue to do what Microsoft is
unwilling/unable to allow us to do - send plain text mail merges.
The long-term solution would be for Microsoft to allow future versions of
Outlook to default to plain text, and to let users send plain text mail
merges without this endless button-pushing.
----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...6fc8968a1&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.general