I have the following problem.
We use Microsoft windows SBS with Exchange 2003 and outlook 2003 on the
clients.

Every week we send a newsletter to all our employees (private email
addresses) and some clients and other interested people. These are about 350
mails in totall.

Right now we just send by putting all addresses in BCC, but this is not an
ideal solution beacause some recepiants see this as spam.

Using Distibution Groups is also not realy a solution beacause we can not
put all members in 1 DG, and thus we have to use several DG's. This is not
perfect either.

Using groups or Query Based Groups in Active Directoy is also not a option,
beacause we just do not want all these addresses in the AD.

I found a application that is a plugin for exchange that can send emails to
outlook categories. this would also be a solution, but beacause we use
several contact folders to seperate the different contacts
(employees/clients/relations/etc) we would have to send the newsletter
several times, once for every contact folder.

Is there some other way of managing this kind of newsletter lists in
outlook/exchange???

The most ideal solution in my mind would be some sort of plugin that gives a
extra field with every outlook contact in every contact folder like
:"newsletter yes/no".
And then a possibility to send a mail to all contacts that have this option
set to "yes".

I guess this is not possible standard, so i'm looking for the next best
solution for this. maybe later i will dive in to some visual basic or
something to write my own plugin to do this.

Hope you can help me find the best, workable solution for sending this
newsletter.

thanks,

Martin