I appreciate the effort to help! I work for the county. If we were a business, or maybe just in better economic times maybe we could afford a program that does email distribution lists. I believe that is the way the companies probably deal with this.
Here's what Microsoft says about the size of outlook distribution lists: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238569 Between 50 & 70 emails per list. That's just a limitation of outlook. At least outlook 2003. On the other hand I have heard that Outlook 2007 might have dealt with this limitation. I will probably check that out. It does seem like the python solution is going to be too labor intensive. As with many such issues I thought it would be a fun challenge to see if I could get it to work. : ) Thanks for the help. matt Matthew Pirritano, Ph.D. Research Analyst IV Medical Services Initiative (MSI) Orange County Health Care Agency (714) 568-5648 -----Original Message----- From: Luke Paireepinart [mailto:rabidpoob...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 5:00 PM To: Pirritano, Matthew Cc: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] creating distribution lists in outlook On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Pirritano, Matthew <mpirrit...@ochca.com> wrote: > Here's the thing. You can import them all at once. But then you have > 1000+ contacts in one contacts folder. When you create the distribution > lists a number get cut off if you try to put too many into the list. But > there is no indication of how many went into the list. And there are not > row numbers or anything like it in the contacts folders. So you'd have > to keep in mind how far you got and then choose the next set, and it > would be way to labor intensive if you were to count to 50 and then do > that again. It's easier to create 20 separate files and make > corresponding lists. But still takes a while. Pardon me for continuing not to address your specific question, but this seems like something that businesses would commonly run into and I'd be very surprised if there's not a way around this already. Is there really no way to have a group of more than 50? Have you tried creating distribution lists based on contact groups? If this is possible you could automatically add all contacts to one specific group. I really think there's a simple solution if you look into it, but I don't have outlook, I use Thunderbird. Are you able to use a plugin to perform the work or is that against your company's policies? I just don't see automating with COM being the cleanest / most robust approach, but if you really want to try it hopefully we can help if you run into any python-specific issues! -Luke _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor