west wind has a facility to send email in html format. as for sending programatically in outlook as html i am sure its possible but i do not know how, however have you tried sending the email with the html code in it, i think that outlook automatically realises that its html and shows accordingly. you can send and also read email automatically so if any get returned you can get to these these through vfp. if you think that people might not get emails sent to 1700 people or to which the are bcc then you could always address each one personaly and send that way, 1700 is not that many to send off in one batch through a modern computer, it would not take more than a minute or two.
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>Hello all!
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>I’m on a small office using MS Exchange.
>Every 2 weeks, we send about 1700 emails to communicate with customers. This is a HTML page I create with Dreamweaver.
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>The past 2 weeks, I just created the page and to sent it out of Outlook.
>First I open the html file on the browser and then "send as web page", using the email distribution list (again, about 1700 emails)
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>Apparently, this is the way they were doing it, but now I need to make this a little more efficient.
>Here is what I have in mind:
>I need to know what happened to all returned emails, why they are coming back, how many and then have them fix that email address contacting the customer.
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>I can automate outlook and send a file as an attachment, but I don’t know how to send as an html email displaying all pictures and links as it shows on the browser.
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>That was FoxPro related, another concerns I have if anybody care to comment, I would really appreciate it.
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>Exchange server:
>How do I make sure I am not "black listed" since I’m broadcasting so many messages?
>(I understand this can be a long explanation, but any comments would help)
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>thank you