Advice needed on mail-merge mailing with Excel 2003 & Outlook 2003

[M. B.]

I need to email about 6,000 contacts of mine in a few weeks, and have the
following questions:

1) My email provider allows only 100 emails to be sent per hour. As I
don't want to be flagged as a spammer, is there a Outlook script or a
seperate program that would allow me to do a schedule that would take the
total list and send 99 emails from it every hour until it's done.

2) These will not be a "generic mass-mailing", but one that I would actually
have a person name go with each seperate email. My contact information
(person name & email address) is stored in an Excel file. Is there a
program that will do this for you?

Any other input is much appreciated! I am using Outlook 2003.

 

[Arvi Laanemets]

Hi

I need to email about 6,000 contacts of mine in a few weeks, and have the
following questions:

1) My email provider allows only 100 emails to be sent per hour. As I
don't want to be flagged as a spammer, is there a Outlook script or a
seperate program that would allow me to do a schedule that would take the
total list and send 99 emails from it every hour until it's done.

2) These will not be a "generic mass-mailing", but one that I would actually
have a person name go with each seperate email. My contact information
(person name & email address) is stored in an Excel file. Is there a
program that will do this for you?

MS Word. There you can use a tool Mail Merge, and you can set a excel table
as datasource for it. And you can set the output to e-mail, with email
address read from your source database.

As for the 1st question, I think it's possible with some VBA-scripting , but
I think you have to do this in MS Word. There are some differences in VBA
for different MS Office programs, and I'm afraid the one for Word is an
unfamiliar field for me.