Using Outlook, Word and Access to send bulk emails. (2 Viewers)

[Ron Mitchell]

Ive built a membership and register of cars database for a UK classic car club and I now want to produce bulk emails using the address’s stored.

I’m Ok with producing the Access file and merging the data in the word document.

The problem that I’ve been working on for the last day or so is to actually get outlook to send the emails.

The error i was getting is that outlook couldn’t find the Outlook.pst file.

It was looking at he C drive but I eventually found it in my OneDrive.

I know that at this point some of you will be ahead of me but please bear with me.

I discovered that having loaded Outlook on my IPhone and IPad that Microsoft changes the location of the .pst files and puts them om the cloud as they cant be saved on the IPhone or Ipad.

I haven’t been able to get Otlook on my PC to look at my One Drive and I didn’t really want too.

So is there a way to remove Outlook from my IPhone and IPad and get the PC back to looking ant my local drive or another way of keeping Outlook on my Apple devices but getting the PC version just looking at the PC hard drive.

Any other Ideas doe overcoming this issue would be much appreciated.

 

[CJ_London]

what version of outlook are you using? Classic or New? It sounds like the former, but if the latter, it won't be possible.

I use POP/SMTP and it works for me. If you are and you are using Classic, try the following:

close outlook
copy the pst to your C drive - perhaps somewhere within your user profile
Open outlook
go to file>Account settings>account settings
On the email tab, there should be a change folder button
click on that and navigate to the new location

For my Iphone I also set up as POP/SMTP but change the settings to leave messages on the server - any emails I send are copied to my email address so I receive them on my main device. May not be ideal for you, but works for me

 

[Ron Mitchell]

what version of outlook are you using? Classic or New? It sounds like the former, but if the latter, it won't be possible.

I use POP/SMTP and it works for me. If you are and you are using Classic, try the following:

close outlook
copy the pst to your C drive - perhaps somewhere within your user profile
Open outlook
go to file>Account settings>account settings
On the email tab, there should be a change folder button
click on that and navigate to the new location

For my Iphone I also set up as POP/SMTP but change the settings to leave messages on the server - any emails I send are copied to my email address so I receive them on my main device. May not be ideal for you, but works for me

I suspect it not the classic version as I’ve just recently re-installed 365

 

[CJ_London]

you should be able to uninstall New and install Classic. Seem to recall click on the search option on the task bar and type 'classic'. Or google for help on how to do it

But check the date of your pst file on onedrive - check if it is current