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Outlook - Forwarding Email to Categories

Jun 9, 2005 6:29PM PDT

MS Outlook 2003

Am I the only one having this problem? How can an email be forwarded to contacts selected by categories?

Assume we have 10 different categories and we have an existing email to be forwarded, or an email just composed to be sent, or we are sending a page from IE, to a set of contacts who belong to categories 4, 5, and a few contacts selected from category 6.

I would think there should be a way to do this effortlessly - but have been unable to figure out. The Address Book does not seem to understand Categories.

Distribution Lists will not work because it is not possible to send the email to part of a list (namely of category 6).

Any help would be greatly greatly appreciated.

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Not a feature of this email program.
Jun 9, 2005 9:24PM PDT

Outlook is not a mass mailing system.

You have the wrong application.

Bob

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Re: Not a feature of this email program
Jun 10, 2005 5:49AM PDT

Hi Bob - I am not using this feature for mass mailing. I assure you that my contact list is not more than 200 contacts.

I would like to use Categories instead of Distribution Lists. Because Outlook DLs do not allow one to select and choose a subset of contacts (on the DL). The message is sent to ALL on the DL.

Often times, I wish to send the message just to a SUBSET of the DL. This is the source of the problem.

Categories allows an easy way to view, select and choose who in the Category should receive the message. But DL does not.

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Yup.
Jun 10, 2005 6:02AM PDT

I didn't write that you were a mass mailer, you are are stretching what this program does.

Look into other email programs that have better contact list management systems. The closest I see are mass mailing programs.

Bob