distribution lists? mailing lists not in a AD user?? help

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H ey MX gurus!

i want to have a mailing list group that the members are not
in Active Directory. I want to import all their email addresses
say via XLS or CVT documents. I am talking thousands.
Like say 3000 emails' is this possible to put all in one group name
and able to use to email people??

Thanks
I know how to make groups but not sure how to handle groups not
in our domain; these are out customer base? thanks guys

 

thanks you so much AJ for your help!

 

You would need to import the items as contacts into AD then formulate the DL out of those contacts (as opposed to full Users)

 

phoenix
it asked for a named data range
what is that?
I have a unix system that can create cvs or xls files
with each email and their respect name but that is it.
it asks for a named range what is that?
thanks

do you know of any 3rd party freeware that can create DL?
if i am too stupid to figure out named ranges?
thanks

 

Try this out mate
didnt have a big read of it but it should be the right tool for the job

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/327620

 

thanks phoenix
i saw this tool but i do not want to add 3000 accounts
to our AD database; would not be good..
i forgot to tell you it is an address list or distribution list
of about 3000 members that i am extracting from a unix
database with a query language into a csv or xls file
i could do text as well. but cant find a tool that groups
them into a name for Outlook 2003 to use.
you would think this would be common to add emails to a list
under one name and blast emails out to this group?
why is this so hard??

 

Well - it is fairly easy on Unix - the standard list manager software used is called MajorDomo.

But I suspect that doesn't help you much.

Harry.

 

AJ is correct
my method is how the majority of sites would maintain DLs for non domain members, Contacts can be sorted into OUs and containers just like Users, and 3000 contacts is not as much as it seems as far as AD is concerned

The outlook way would limit that list just to the person whos outlook you imported it to

there are numerous list servers that can run on a windows platform though which will work similar to how majordomo does

obviously whichever way achieves your goal is the best, if this is only for you to send mail to then the outlook way may be sufficient

 

thanks Phoenix and AJ
yeah, i used the import csv into contacts list locally
to that user only; my bosss only needs to email members.

i like both ways, nice to have many known ways of doing things.

thank you both; and you guys are riot with that
funny birthday smutty phrase thing; gosh is that freaking funny
you guys know how to work hard and play hard!

thanks again!
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