E-mail distribution list on Windows Mobile

Published Mon, Apr 14 2008 6:45

 

If you need to send e-mails to a distribution list and don't have Exchange or any e-mail distribution list software and need to create small distribution lists to send e-mails on the go, then follow this simple guide as it worked fine for me:

  1. Create a new contact and name it for example "GroupList1";
  2. Go to the e-mail field and add all the e-mails you need separated by semicolons;
  3. Save your list (contact);
  4. Open your e-mail account and on the BCC field add your new GroupList1 contact;

If all goes well that e-mail should arrive correctly to all recipients. I have only tried this using 3 recipients, so if you manage to do it with more please let me know.

 

by Nuno Luz
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Comments

# Lee Williams said on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 7:00 PM

G'day nunoluz,

Good work with the new blog - i hope that it works out well for you! I can't seem to find many Windows Mobile MVP blogs - so hats of to ya!

Regards,

Lee.

Australia.

# Nuno Luz said on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 3:24 AM

Hi Lee!

Thank you for your words of support.

I hope my blog may in some way help you or any other Windows Mobile users.

Please feel free to drop a line any time you want.

Regards

Nuno

# subject: exchange said on Sunday, April 20, 2008 5:22 PM

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# Lewis said on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 11:39 AM

Works with six email addresses but not with seven or more.

# SteveA said on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 10:42 AM

It appears that POOM (the Pocket Outlook Object Model), which is used to send email from MS exchange by Win Mobile, has a character limit around 350 characters, and requires the full email address. So if your email addresses are similar to "fname.lastname@company.com;", then that's 27 chars per email, hence a dozen addresses or so. I have not yet found a way around this. Would be exceptionally interested is there is a way around.

Code snippet:

   Private Sub MenuItem2_Click( _

      ByVal sender As System.Object, _

      ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _

      Handles MenuItem2.Click

       Dim message As New EmailMessage

       message.Subject = _

          "TEST - Notification Test Message - TEST"

       message.BodyText = txtMessage.Text

       Dim lstTo As String =

           "fname.lastname@company.com;",  & _

           "fname.lastname@company.com;",  & _

                          . . . .

           "fname.lastname@company.com;"

       Dim client As New _

          Recipient(lstTo)

       message.To.Add(client)

       Dim currentSession As New _

           OutlookSession

       currentSession. _

           EmailAccounts(0).Send(message)

       MsgBox("Message sent!")

   End Sub

# PhillDoc said on Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:10 PM

Cool blog as for me. I'd like to read something more about this topic. Thnx for sharing that data.

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