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jon - 31 May 2006 23:31 GMT

I am trying to figure out how to set up mail merge because I alwayse get an
error message that it cant be completed. I would use outlook if I could get
it to work with my email or if i wanted to part with thunderbird.

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Peter Jamieson - 01 Jun 2006 10:28 GMT

I don't think you will be able to use Thunderbird because Word uses MAPI to
send its e-mails when merging and Thurderbird does not implement it (at
least, not when I last looked).

Personally, I would probably try to set things up so I used Outlook Express
for merges and switched back to Thunderbird for everything else, but if you
prefer not to have IE/OE on your system, that's a non-starter.

Sorry.

Peter Jamieson

>I am trying to figure out how to set up mail merge because I alwayse get an
> error message that it cant be completed. I would use outlook if I could
> get
> it to work with my email or if i wanted to part with thunderbird.

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jon - 01 Jun 2006 11:53 GMT

I for some reason cant even get outlook to work with gmail or hotmail. I dont
know if this realy has anything to do with this problem but im using 2007

> I don't think you will be able to use Thunderbird because Word uses MAPI to
> send its e-mails when merging and Thurderbird does not implement it (at
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> > get
> > it to work with my email or if i wanted to part with thunderbird.

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Peter Jamieson - 01 Jun 2006 12:11 GMT

>I for some reason cant even get outlook to work with gmail or hotmail. I
>dont
> know if this realy has anything to do with this problem but im using 2007

Can't help on that one I'm afraid as I only ever use the POP3/SMTP (and
Exchange) connectivity in Outlook/OE. For the basic Outlook connectivity
issues I feel sure you will get a better response in an Outlook group, but
that won't necessarily help as far as Merge to e-mail is concerned.

Peter Jamieson

>I for some reason cant even get outlook to work with gmail or hotmail. I
>dont
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>> > get
>> > it to work with my email or if i wanted to part with thunderbird.

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