I have a corporate email system using O2K for clients and Exchange 2003 for
server.

I have a user who setup a distribution list in his personal contact list.
The members of the list are not part of our corporate email, therefore are
not on the exchange server. This user would like to send an email to the
distribution list and attach his distribution list to the email so that the
recipients who also have outlook can drag and drop this to their own contact
lists and have the same thing.

But, it doesn't quite work that way for all. Seems that some clients
receive the email and the attachment that should be the dist list appears to
be a blank msg file.

I have tested this on my own personal email account and PC that has Outlook
setup for Internet mail (not for Exchange mail). When the message comes
thru the msg attachment is a blank email.

Is there a way to send the distribution list as a vcf or some format so that
other can import it into their outlook clients to use?

Attach the DL as an Outlook item to a message in RTF format.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"LFM" wrote in message
. ..
I have a corporate email system using O2K for clients and Exchange 2003 for
server.

I have a user who setup a distribution list in his personal contact list.
The members of the list are not part of our corporate email, therefore are
not on the exchange server. This user would like to send an email to the
distribution list and attach his distribution list to the email so that
the recipients who also have outlook can drag and drop this to their own
contact lists and have the same thing.

But, it doesn't quite work that way for all. Seems that some clients
receive the email and the attachment that should be the dist list appears
to be a blank msg file.

I have tested this on my own personal email account and PC that has
Outlook setup for Internet mail (not for Exchange mail). When the
message comes thru the msg attachment is a blank email.

Is there a way to send the distribution list as a vcf or some format so
that other can import it into their outlook clients to use?

Users are setup to only send in RTF format, not in HTML, and it still
happens.


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
...
Attach the DL as an Outlook item to a message in RTF format.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"LFM" wrote in message
. ..
I have a corporate email system using O2K for clients and Exchange 2003
for server.

I have a user who setup a distribution list in his personal contact list.
The members of the list are not part of our corporate email, therefore
are not on the exchange server. This user would like to send an email to
the distribution list and attach his distribution list to the email so
that the recipients who also have outlook can drag and drop this to their
own contact lists and have the same thing.

But, it doesn't quite work that way for all. Seems that some clients
receive the email and the attachment that should be the dist list appears
to be a blank msg file.

I have tested this on my own personal email account and PC that has
Outlook setup for Internet mail (not for Exchange mail). When the
message comes thru the msg attachment is a blank email.

Is there a way to send the distribution list as a vcf or some format so
that other can import it into their outlook clients to use?

Not to anyone else. I suspect user error. State how the DL is being inserted
as an Outlook Item.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"LFM" wrote in message
...
Users are setup to only send in RTF format, not in HTML, and it still
happens.


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
...
Attach the DL as an Outlook item to a message in RTF format.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"LFM" wrote in message
. ..
I have a corporate email system using O2K for clients and Exchange 2003
for server.

I have a user who setup a distribution list in his personal contact
list. The members of the list are not part of our corporate email,
therefore are not on the exchange server. This user would like to send
an email to the distribution list and attach his distribution list to
the email so that the recipients who also have outlook can drag and drop
this to their own contact lists and have the same thing.

But, it doesn't quite work that way for all. Seems that some clients
receive the email and the attachment that should be the dist list
appears to be a blank msg file.

I have tested this on my own personal email account and PC that has
Outlook setup for Internet mail (not for Exchange mail). When the
message comes thru the msg attachment is a blank email.

Is there a way to send the distribution list as a vcf or some format so
that other can import it into their outlook clients to use?

Russ, how does one go about inserting a DL as an Outlook item (using 2003
SP-1)? When I start a new message then click on Insert I cannot find an
"item" option, even while set to RTF. I tried forwarding the DL as a vCard
but the recipient received nothing but a small .TXT file.

Thanks,
Judy


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Not to anyone else. I suspect user error. State how the DL is being inserted
as an Outlook Item.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"LFM" wrote in message
...
Users are setup to only send in RTF format, not in HTML, and it still
happens.


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
...
Attach the DL as an Outlook item to a message in RTF format.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"LFM" wrote in message
. ..
I have a corporate email system using O2K for clients and Exchange 2003
for server.

I have a user who setup a distribution list in his personal contact
list. The members of the list are not part of our corporate email,
therefore are not on the exchange server. This user would like to send
an email to the distribution list and attach his distribution list to
the email so that the recipients who also have outlook can drag and drop
this to their own contact lists and have the same thing.

But, it doesn't quite work that way for all. Seems that some clients
receive the email and the attachment that should be the dist list
appears to be a blank msg file.

I have tested this on my own personal email account and PC that has
Outlook setup for Internet mail (not for Exchange mail). When the
message comes thru the msg attachment is a blank email.

Is there a way to send the distribution list as a vcf or some format so
that other can import it into their outlook clients to use?

Are you using Word as the Editor? If yes, then use the dropdown by the paperclip to select Item.

--�
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Judy asked:

| Russ, how does one go about inserting a DL as an Outlook item (using
| 2003 SP-1)? When I start a new message then click on Insert I cannot
| find an "item" option, even while set to RTF. I tried forwarding the
| DL as a vCard but the recipient received nothing but a small .TXT
| file.
|
| Thanks,
| Judy
|
|
| "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Not to anyone else. I suspect user error. State how the DL is being
|| inserted as an Outlook Item.
|| --
|| Russ Valentine
|| [MVP-Outlook]
|| "LFM" wrote in message
|| ...
||| Users are setup to only send in RTF format, not in HTML, and it
||| still happens.
|||
|||
||| "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
||| ...
|||| Attach the DL as an Outlook item to a message in RTF format.
|||| --
|||| Russ Valentine
|||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||| "LFM" wrote in message
|||| . ..
||||| I have a corporate email system using O2K for clients and
||||| Exchange 2003 for server.
|||||
||||| I have a user who setup a distribution list in his personal
||||| contact list. The members of the list are not part of our
||||| corporate email, therefore are not on the exchange server. This
||||| user would like to send an email to the distribution list and
||||| attach his distribution list to the email so that the recipients
||||| who also have outlook can drag and drop this to their own contact
||||| lists and have the same thing.
|||||
||||| But, it doesn't quite work that way for all. Seems that some
||||| clients receive the email and the attachment that should be the
||||| dist list appears to be a blank msg file.
|||||
||||| I have tested this on my own personal email account and PC that
||||| has Outlook setup for Internet mail (not for Exchange mail).
||||| When the message comes thru the msg attachment is a blank email.
|||||
||||| Is there a way to send the distribution list as a vcf or some
||||| format so that other can import it into their outlook clients to
||||| use?