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Mail Merge using Lotus Notes...
Hello,
I am trying to send an email to a group of persons using Mail Merge. However, when I reach the last step where the mail needs to be sent, nothing happens. I am using Word 2003 on a Win XP SP1 machine with Lotus Notes as the default mail client. Does Mail Merge work only with Outlook? Can something be done so that I can send mails via Lotus Notes? Pls do let me know. Thx -- Sujesh R. Nair |
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Does Mail Merge work only with Outlook?
It depends. As far as I know, 1. merge to email using HTML format only works with the full Outlook.You have to use the plain text or attachment option with anything else 2. to get anything to work at all with Notes you have to ensure that it is the default email client in Windows, and enable its MAPI stuff (somewhere in the Notes client options) 3. even then, I /think/ there is a problem with the Notes Client because it needs user intervention to send each e-mail that Word produces, but it's a long time since I had a Notes setup here so I can't test. You may find that a 3rd party utility will help. A lot of people seem to find the MAPILabs Mail Merge Toolkit useful, and I think that works with Word+Notes, but I haven't used it myself - see http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/mail_merge/ -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Sujesh" wrote in message ... Hello, I am trying to send an email to a group of persons using Mail Merge. However, when I reach the last step where the mail needs to be sent, nothing happens. I am using Word 2003 on a Win XP SP1 machine with Lotus Notes as the default mail client. Does Mail Merge work only with Outlook? Can something be done so that I can send mails via Lotus Notes? Pls do let me know. Thx -- Sujesh R. Nair |
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Mail Merge using Lotus Notes...
Thx Peter for the suggestion. However, it did not work. Using the mailmerge
toolkit also did not help much. Any other suggestions pls? -- Sujesh R. Nair "Peter Jamieson" wrote: Does Mail Merge work only with Outlook? It depends. As far as I know, 1. merge to email using HTML format only works with the full Outlook.You have to use the plain text or attachment option with anything else 2. to get anything to work at all with Notes you have to ensure that it is the default email client in Windows, and enable its MAPI stuff (somewhere in the Notes client options) 3. even then, I /think/ there is a problem with the Notes Client because it needs user intervention to send each e-mail that Word produces, but it's a long time since I had a Notes setup here so I can't test. You may find that a 3rd party utility will help. A lot of people seem to find the MAPILabs Mail Merge Toolkit useful, and I think that works with Word+Notes, but I haven't used it myself - see http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/mail_merge/ -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Sujesh" wrote in message ... Hello, I am trying to send an email to a group of persons using Mail Merge. However, when I reach the last step where the mail needs to be sent, nothing happens. I am using Word 2003 on a Win XP SP1 machine with Lotus Notes as the default mail client. Does Mail Merge work only with Outlook? Can something be done so that I can send mails via Lotus Notes? Pls do let me know. Thx -- Sujesh R. Nair |
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Hi Sujesh,
Not really, sorry. In the past I have seen third party packages that can do this, but they either seem to have dropped that functionailty or are very expensive. In any case, you can search the web as easily as I can. However, I have always understood that the whole idea of Notes was to make it easy to share/distribute rich text material, and I would have thought that the other approach to mailmerging "to" notes is to a. create a rich text document /in/ notes b. either find a way to import your data into a notes database and use it to do a mass mailing completely within Notes, or find a way to access external data (i.e. without importing it) and do the same thing. I have seen various articles on the web that seem to discuss this kind of approach (mostly some LotusScript is involved) but without my own copy of Notes I have no way to see what is really involved, what is actually feasible in terms of external data access, and so on. -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Sujesh" wrote in message ... Thx Peter for the suggestion. However, it did not work. Using the mailmerge toolkit also did not help much. Any other suggestions pls? -- Sujesh R. Nair "Peter Jamieson" wrote: Does Mail Merge work only with Outlook? It depends. As far as I know, 1. merge to email using HTML format only works with the full Outlook.You have to use the plain text or attachment option with anything else 2. to get anything to work at all with Notes you have to ensure that it is the default email client in Windows, and enable its MAPI stuff (somewhere in the Notes client options) 3. even then, I /think/ there is a problem with the Notes Client because it needs user intervention to send each e-mail that Word produces, but it's a long time since I had a Notes setup here so I can't test. You may find that a 3rd party utility will help. A lot of people seem to find the MAPILabs Mail Merge Toolkit useful, and I think that works with Word+Notes, but I haven't used it myself - see http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/mail_merge/ -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Sujesh" wrote in message ... Hello, I am trying to send an email to a group of persons using Mail Merge. However, when I reach the last step where the mail needs to be sent, nothing happens. I am using Word 2003 on a Win XP SP1 machine with Lotus Notes as the default mail client. Does Mail Merge work only with Outlook? Can something be done so that I can send mails via Lotus Notes? Pls do let me know. Thx -- Sujesh R. Nair |
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