Mastering Mailing

All I wanted to do was build up a little mailing list. I had a bunch of incoming mail messages and I wanted to take the address of each sender and use it to construct a list of recipients I could send the same message to. Common sense left me thinking that there would be something in Outlook that would make this easy.

Common sense (at least mine) was wrong.

Outlook let me laboriously create a mailing list from the addresses by hand, and then hid the list in a place where I can't actually find it. No kidding. This is obviously a variant of the highly secure "Write Only Memory" devices that we invented years ago.

Google mail sort of let me do it, but I had to laboriously insert the names one at a time, and it informed me, just enough times to be irritating, that it already knew some of the addresses anyway.

Finally I got the messages sent off, only to find that some of them ended up in spam filters. Such is life.

If anyone knows of a tool or trick that makes what I want to do easy, then I'd love to know it.

Comments

[Shawn]

Maybe this link would help?

http://email.about.com/cs/outlooktips/qt/et122003.htm