I never do e-mails in these volumes but if this happened to me the first
thing I would try is
a. disable Outlook from /sending/
b. do the merge and see if all the messages end up in the Outbox
c. re-enable Outlook sending.
How you do (a) probably depends on the verwion of Outlook but in OL2003 you
could try Tools|Options|Mail Setup Send/Receive.
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Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk
"noelpell" u38033@uwe wrote in message news:794cbf35b260d@uwe...
I am trying to do a bulk email from Word using Outlook to send. I have
several thousand recipients. I go through the process fine but after they
start generating and when the outbox gets close to 200 messages in it, it
stops receiving them from Word, although Word will still show it
processing
through all of them. Sometimes I get an error in Word "system call
failed".
This is very frustrating when you are trying to send thousands and can
only
do 200 at a time. The email itself is only 81KB. Does this have to do with
some kind of size limit in the outbox? I've tried to let it send out while
it
was still accummulating in the outbox but same problem occurs. One lucky
time
I did ge about 500 at one shot. I'm using a POP3 email server and Office
2003.
Any advice would be great! Thanks!