Sending Emails to several people at once..

[Jaffacaique]

Hi, hope this explains it clearly ...

I reguarly send funny (joke) emails with or without attachments to many of my mates, however some of them get easily affended by certain subjects, as I don't often get much time to go on my PC the inbox quite often gets up to 40 - 50 emails so I end up spending most of my time passing them on.

So I was wondering if there is such a program in existence that would enable me input their emails addresses and then allow me to select in the program which email goes to certain people without having to enter in individually their email addresses. I am not planning on sending scam emails, junk or spam I just want to continue passing on the funny emails I recieve.

Thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time to answer this post.

 

[Nothinman]

I would think that any decent mail program would let you create a group or distribution list.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
I would think that any decent mail program would let you create a group or distribution list.

Yup, even most of the popular online email providers have this feature.

 

[armstrda]

Might help to know what email client you're using (Outlook, outlook express, thunderbird, etc)

 

[Jaffacaique]

Hi Armstrda

I'm using Outlook 2007, I didn't mention this before as it was a seperate I was after. I take it from your query that Outlook 2007 is capable of doing this for me then? I have to confess other than sending emails with it I've not attempted to look into what else it can do. But if you know different point me in the right direction.

 

[armstrda]

Yes, in Outlook 2007 what you do is click the little arrow next to New at the top left (just under the File menu) and select Distribution LIst. You give the list a name, and then either click on Select Members (which will open your address book for you to choose receipients) or click Add New and type in each email address. Then you click Save and CLose. Now when you write a mail, in the To box, just type the Distribution List name, such as MyDistiList.

 

[Jaffacaique]

Hi Armstrda

Thanks fo that, I will give it try later.

 

[Jaffacaique]

Hi Armstrda

Many thanks for the info on setting up the distribution list, I've setup my own lists now and it works great... didn't realise Outlook could do that.

Do you know an actual program that can backup and restore your email address, contacts, Distribution lists etc without using Outlook itself?

I've gone into the windows folders and found the actual location of my saved emails before. Whilst this has worked okay it seems a bit long winded. If you or anyone else has found and used any such programs which would you recommend?

Thanks again in advance for anyone who can help.