How to turn off mass email block in Outlook 2003?

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simon

Hello All,

I am using Outlook 2003 and since I am on the steering comittee of a
professional user group, I need to send out mass email to the group
occasionally. Outlook 2003 detected that I am sending mass email from my
contact list and therefore, it will pause every single time to ask me if I
want to continue. Our user group has more than 200 members and I do not want
to click "continue" for 200 times. So my question is that, is there a way to
turn this safety feature off? I look around the menu and options but I
cannot find it.

Any help will be very much appreciated.
 
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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]

No, you can't turn it off. What you can do is tell us what procedure you're
using to send the messages so that someone might be able to suggest a
solution. For example, mail merge to HTML format message won't product
security prompts.
 
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simon

Thanks for the reply. I tried to send the mass email to my user group
members in two ways:
1. I stored all the user group member contact information in SQL Server.
Then I wrote a little program to loop thru the dataset to send out email
using MAPI.
2. I created a email distribution list in Outlook 2003, then sent out the
email using the list.

Either way, I got the security prompt. You mentioned "mail merge to HTML
format message", can you tell me how to do that?

Thank you so much for the help.
 
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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]

Use the mail merge feature in Word and choose HTML as the message format
when prompted. You can automate mail merge programmatically designating a
SQL table or query as th esource.
 
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