Is this really what happens or am I imagining it.

I create 500 emails with a Quick Campaign from a marketing list. But
instead of them being sent it creates 500 tasks to manually send them, one by
one? Perhaps I should have used Direct email instead - but that does not
have the nice tracking features of Quick Campaigns.

Let me know if you think this is strange or wrong.

I tried exactly the same, and even more thought of attaching a PDF brochure
to all those emails.

But the reality seams, that:
YES - you have to attach a PDF to each of them manually
YES - you have to Open and Send each of them.

I soooo hope I am wrong here, and that someone WILL correct me, since this
really IS the key feature for us.

Thanks,
Andrija

"Reggie55" wrote:

When was SP1 due?.........


"Andrija" wrote:

It is actually a bit funny if this Early Preview release is the finished
product, since quite some basic functionality like the one described below is
just missing?

It is kind of hard to believe that no one ever thought of using a CRM for
sending a newsletter, with a bit of a sales brochure attached. So I am
guessing (I hope, wish,...) the functionality is there, but the GUI is not
displaying it to the novice as one expects it.

Andrija

"Helen" wrote:

Ditto...

"Andrija" <Andrija@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:359DB26A-0576-48A8-9E85-5E4E5A7525C8@microsoft.com...

Perhaps the idea is to put the content directly in the email in order to
avoid transmission problems re spam checking, etc.

"Jon Poploskie" wrote:

But you still have to sent every single one manually??? Even without any
attachments?

"Larry Kistner" wrote:

That cannot be right. We must be doing something different than intended.
Still searching through the help. What version.build are you working with?

"Andrija" wrote:

The MSDN one...

We are running v3 .5300 build, from the Help/About menu. Is that the same as
yours? Are you working with the most recent MSDN from Dec 5th?

"Andrija" wrote:

Surely someone knows how to do this (not send every one manually)?? What is
the difference between a quick email campaign and bulk/direct email? For
that matter, I can't figure out how to get bulk/direct email to work (I get
an error message stating something to the effect that it's not enabled?).

Thanks
Jon

"Andrija" <Andrija@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1050CF21-A8A4-4E1A-9246-E422BA13CAF1@microsoft.com...

Hi Jon,

Check 5 threads up - Campaign eMail - system aborted.
Basically you need to start a Bulk Mail Service on the server.

Andrija

"Jon Poploskie" wrote:

Make sure you are using the Outlook Client. What I have seen is that the
marketing functionality works differently in OLK client versus browser client.

OLK client will use word mailmerge to send the email, w/o you having to
touch each email individually. Browser creates email tasks that have to be
individually opened and sent.

Scott

"Andrija" wrote:

But surely that means you don't get the Quick Campaign functionality to track
the responses in one place.

"Scott" wrote:

I'm also wondering why I have to send each e-mail activity individualy from a
Quick Campaign. I sincerely thought the Quick Campaign would send the e-mail
automatically, not just create the e-mail activity.

Why can't we use the quick campaign to send bulk e-mails? Is there some way
to just send all of these from the browser??

-Christian

"Helen" wrote:

We just went through this, and got the same results in Quick Campaign. I
assumed the emails were sent, as the system seemed happy with the overall
situation. I grew suspicious after a few hours when I did not receive any
responses, then I noticed the 'draft' status.

After considerable poking around, I had to open each email up and 'send' it.
This has to be the dumbest process I have ever seen.

It turns out that if you use the bulk email option, not the quick campaign
option, the CRM system will actually send the emails. What a novel result!

I am also unable to find a way to modify the quick campaign forms or
reports, as I can with every other aspect of this product. Has anyone found
out how to do this?

Jeff Erwin

"Christian" wrote:

Did you find out anymore information regarding the bulk mail vs. quick
campaign issue? We just ran our quick campaign and noticed that we would have
to go in to over 2000 contacts one at a time to send the email!.!
worthless.....

"jerwin" wrote:

Gary,

Best option is to NOT use the Marketing module for sending bulk e-mails.
Instead, run a search in the Advanced Find (or lead/contact/account list
view) for your targeted records, then click on the "Send Direct E-Mail" icon
to go through the wizard.

The Campaign functionality apparently only creates an assignable e-mail
activity, and does not send any e-mails automatically to the Marketing List.
As I said, best avoid the Marketing module for bulk e-mails.

-Christian
"Gary Hart" wrote:

The trouble with using bulk email you can't track their progress like you can
with campaigns.

Maybe someone will rescue us a write an add on that allows you to send the
campaign emails automatically.

"Christian" wrote:

There is a workaround/fix documented here:

http://www.microsoft.com/Businesssol...a-2ac42f008963



"Helen" wrote: