RSSThe tools listed on this page are used for sending mail to multiple recipients, including mail merge. The utilities can be used for sending newsletter and other bulk mail and many can be configured to slowly send messages if your ISP limits the number of messages you can send in a time period.
While Microsoft Outlook supports mail merge, it does not support merging attachments with the message. You'll need to either use one of the mail merge tools on this page (most support including attachments in the merged message) or use VBA.
I have Add attachments and set email fields during a mail merge to email, which adds attachments and sets other fields (like Importance) when the message is sent and Microsoft Word MVP Doug Robbins wrote the Mail Merge to E-mail with Attachments code sample using Word VBA to create a mail merge with attachments.
Additional pages of mail tools are listed under More Information.
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Easy Mail Merge for Outlook gives you the power to fully personalize email messages and quickly deliver individual emails to your contacts list, being the perfect solution for your mail merge needs, such as personalizing email newsletters, business announcements, marketing emails or any other emails that need to be customized and individually sent to a large number of people. | |
A Microsoft Office add-in designed for creating and conducting survey, uses MS Access for survey form creation. When survey is created, the special Outlook add-in creates an HTML email with the questionnaire. The respondent fills the form and clicks the form button to send it back. The Outlook add-in processes incoming messages, select ones with the survey results and inputs the data in the Access table. | |
Create and send personalized individually addressed e-mail messages using an easy Wizard in Outlook - plain text, HTML or rich text. Your recipient list can be in Outlook, Exchange Global Address Lists, Excel or Access files. You can use Categories or Distribution Lists to keep mailing lists. You can even defer and batch send your emails to get around ISP restrictions. This is your complete Outlook based solution for e-mail newsletters, business announcements and sales & marketing emails.Supports Outlook 2000, 2002, 2003,2007 and Outlook 2010. | |
Generate individual messages to Outlook contacts from documents designed in Word or Publisher, including messages in GIF format with image maps. Allows you to add attachments and generate a custom subject for each message using merged data. Does not trigger Outlook security prompts. | |
Quick Templates is designed for fast insertion of text templates into Microsoft Outlook mail messages. Use it to enter frequently repeated text fragments, reducing the time you spend on message writing as well as typos or misprints in your messages. With Quick Templates you can create a template list and insert the text from template into a message by a single mouse click or through a hotkey you can set for each template individually. | |
Now at version 2, Send Individually was designed for small companies needing to stay in touch with their customers via a newsletter, allows you to send emails to people individually addressed and one at a time. Version 2.0 has several bug fixes, now has better reporting capabilities and allows you the option of deleting the emails from your Sent Items folder after they have been sent for easy cleanup. Enter code WD9BHK53 during checkout. | |
Mass mail tool that expands Outlook distribution lists and sends an individual message to each member of the list. Can exclude certain names from the DL. Has some mail merge capability for inserting personalized text in the body of messages. Outlook 2000 or later. | |
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Contact manager, integrated with Outlook for e-mail, calendar, task, and activity functions. Includes tracking of outgoing faxes, merge to HTML mail with attachments, ability to view ACT! contact databases in Outlook address book. Contact databases can be shared. | |
Office Documents adds powerful mail-merge capabilities to Outlook, with merge to Word DOcuments, Excel Spreadhseets and Outlook EMails. Perfect for fully personalizing email messages, Word documents and Excel spreadsheets, making Aladdins the premium solution for all your mail-merge needs. Version 4. | |
Create distribution list from contacts based on selected categories. | |
Extracts e-mail addresses from Outlook messages. | |
InsertText reduces the time it takes to write and respond to emails while also increasing the accuracy. InsertText gives you the fastest way of creating and using templates/pre-written responses in Microsoft Outlook. Write templates that you can reuse later or insert repeated text/graphics fragments or create new emails directly from templates. Much more than just copy & paste and easy to use even if you have hundreds of templates. Your templates can include email specific fields such as the message, Subject, To, CC and BCC fields. Works inside Outlook and from the System Tray. Version 3.0.20 | |
LBE Email Scheduler allows you to set up multiple mailing projects, each of which can be sent as a one-off or sent automatically at a schedule you decide. Emails can be personalized by including the recipient's name, making them ideal for customer mailshots. You can send either in plain text or use HTML and attach files. | |
Multifunction utility to send individual messages to a list generated either from a text file or from criteria on the Contacts folder, remove large file attachments, remove duplicate contacts and messages, and perform a few other little chores. | |
Mailing list manager for Outlook, using its own database. Can import/export via text file or grab addresses from messages in an Outlook folder. Handles subscriptions, removals and bounces. Does not trigger Outlook security prompts. Office XP or 2003. | |
Mail merge to email with support for attachments, pictures, and HTML hyperlinks. Messages are stored for later reuse. Does not trigger Outlook email security prompts. | |
Outlook Mail Merge Attachment supplies the mail merge process in Microsoft Office Word and Outlook with the functionality to add an attachment. The script is tested on Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007. (Free) | |
Bulk mail tool to send an individual message to multiple recipients. Addresses can come from any address list and may include distribution lists. Has the ability to set time delay periods between messages to comply with Internet Service Provider limitations on group mailings and supports automatic unsubscribe and remove request processing, and email extraction features to aid in the creation of targeted mailing lists for newsletters, support groups, and press releases. (Was Prosoft Apps Internet Email Software) | |
Email Merge Personalized Individually Addressed Invitations, Greetings and Sales Letters at the click of a button. Supports Outlook 2000,2002, 2003 and 2007, with or without Word as Editor. | |
Potolook Outlook Plugin is a template add-in for Outlook. Use the templates for new messages, hierarchical template settings allow configuring the plugin precisely to meet your needs. Additionally, the program extends capabilities for filtering mail, removing unsolicited commercial mail and performing miscellaneous conversions. The software contains an extendable core that allows developing additional features using scripting languages. | |
Public Mail 2 Contact is a freeware Outlook addon. It generates Outlook contacts from existing e-mails and verifies whether the e-mail-address does already exist as contact of Outlook. Adequate filters prevent Public Mail 2 Contact from creating duplicates in Outlook during the conversion. The usage of individual blacklist filters permits to exclude specific e-mail-addresses, domains or suffixes. This helps to avoid the continuous visualization of the same domains or e-mail addresses during conversion. | |
RoboMeeting intelligently automates scheduling and calendaring key prospect meetings leveraging RoboMeeting and Microsoft Outlook functionality. | |
SendLater is a convenient e-mail scheduler allowing you to handle your e-mail correspondence in a timely manner even if you are away from your computer. Prepare all your email notifications and reminders, greetings in advance and schedule recurrence their delivery. Re-send your e-mail message to the recipient if no answer was received to your e-mail and stop the recurrent sending if a response is received from the recipient. As long as your computer is online, your important business or personal messages will be sent automatically even Microsoft Outlook is closed. Version 3.10. | |
Bulk mail program that sends an individual message to each recipient. Can use Outlook data, as well as many other sources. Can attach up to 20 files, even to HTML-format messages, and use merge fields to build the message subject. Does not trigger the Outlook security prompts | |
Email tracking service notifies you when your recipient reads your email and clicked on any links included in the email. Email analytics also available. | |
More Information
- Content Control Tools
- Compression Tools
- Decoder Tools
- Distribution List Tools
- Fax Tools — includes tools for scanning documents into Outlook items
- Junk Mail Tools
- Notification Tools
- Security Tools — Some of these also provide message tracking.
- Signature Tools — including random quotes
- Microsoft Outlook Message Form Samples — more sample message forms
- CNET Downloads — Many additional sources for Outlook stationery and mail notification utilities, among other things
- OL2000: How to Broadcast Mail Using Outlook
- EMail Checkers for Windows NT – Workstation
