Very Useful Add-In For Outlook

re: Very Useful Add-In For Outlook

Tanmay — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:04:46 GMT

Great post, Great Tool,

But isn't it HIGH TIME that Outlook provides this functionality OUT OF THE BOX...? May be with a limit of number of id's or number of mails sent in a specific time interval...

Tanmay.

re: Very Useful Add-In For Outlook

Colin — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:08:47 GMT

I think that another free solution would be to use Powershell to send the email for you. This would be a pretty simple task. If you have all the contacts then you could export that to a file and then type the email into another file. Then a simple powershell script would be able to loop through all the users in the email to file and send the note. I think I will try to write a entry on that for my website and also for my blog at http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/dba/

re: Very Useful Add-In For Outlook

Philip — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:40:59 GMT

You could have used an e-mail mail-merge.... It is something that Outlook can do, for free, out of the box.

re: Very Useful Add-In For Outlook

HaroldWong — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:07:20 GMT

Great comments from all.

1. It sure would be nice if Outlook had every possible capability that I need just built into it. However, I'm realistic and know this just won't happen so having great add-ins from great partners is a good thing.

2. Using Powershell is a great solution, but not sure how to capture that in my Sent Items folder unless I happen to BCC myself. Also, not 100% sure if this would require an SMTP send or MAPI through Exchange.

3. Mail Merge would require that I have the folks already saved as contacts in Outlook, which I don't have.

Harold Wong

re: Very Useful Add-In For Outlook

Michel de Rooij — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:13:18 GMT

yes, Tanmay, this functionality out of the box .. great idea. But don't you think we receive enough spam already?

re: Very Useful Add-In For Outlook

Jeffrey B. Kane — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:54:37 GMT

Actually, Mail Merge is the best way to go, and you don't need to already have the folks saved as contacts in Outlook.

You just put your list into Excel and then choose "Use Existing List..." for the data.

See http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100819761033.aspx#3.6 for more info.

:-)