Word 2002 Email Merge

[leosanche]

Hello Everyone. Recently, we started having this problem with email
merges in outlook 2002 and word 2002 using excel 2002 for a
datasource. We create a data source with approximately 6000 emails we
do the do the mail merge in word using the email merge wizard and it
starts to throw the emails in the outbox. I started to notice that it
would only throw approximately 3000 emails. To be more precise its
never consistent. Sometimes it will send 2000+ sometimes it will send
3100 others 3700 etc. Are there any limitations on how many records
word 2002 can merge or are there any limitations on how many messages
can be in the outlok 2002 outbox (I know its not an outlook forum).
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
leosanchez
Miami, FL

 

[Peter Jamieson]

I don't know of any predefined limits in this area that you are likely to be
hitting. If your merge document is complex and you are merging to HTML or
using an attached document you are going to be using up at least 20Kb per
e-mail, but that's only 20Mb for 1000 emails which doesn't seem excessive to
me given a folder size limit of 2Gb.

What does Word start doing after the 3000 or so e-mails?

The only thing I can think of that /might/ affect Word's behaviour in this
area and which can be tested reasonably easily is the method used to connect
to the Excel document - other than OLEDB, you can choose DDE, the Converter,
or ODBC. It sounds unlikely that that would be the source of the problem
though.