[Tutor] creating distribution lists in outlook

[Pirritano, Matthew]

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.

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:rabidpoobear at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 4:26 PM
To: Pirritano, Matthew
Cc: tutor at python.org
Subject: Re: [Tutor] creating distribution lists in outlook

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Pirritano, Matthew
<MPirritano at ochca.com> wrote:
> That's the way we've been doing it. The issue, and inspiration for
> pythonification is that the list has 1000+ emails. Outlook only allows
> about 50 per list, which leads to the need to create 20+ separate
lists,
> which takes a considerable amount of time.
>
Can't you import them all at once though? from a single file? rather
than 20 separate ones? (i.e. they would still be 20 lists but you'd
only have to go through the import process once.)

Are you trying to automate Outlook to send the e-mails, or just to
load in the list?