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Hi guys. Been a while since I was last seen around here. I need some help though please.

I'm trying to leech email addresses from Outlook for a monthly newsletter. I've found one or two programs to do the job, but they seem dodgy, and i'm also not keen to splash out $30 on software i've never heard of. Has anyone here used software like this, and do you have any names for me?

Here's one that I'm looking at buying, and the demo seems to work quite well.

http://www.emailaddressmanager.com/export_emails.html

Um, so you want us to help you spam the Internet, which is one of the very things that frustrate us all beyond belief?

I'm not sure that this is against the rules, so I won't lock it for now, but I seriously hope that no one offers any assistance and this thread just dies a slow and painful death.

OP hasn't made it very clear whether this is for spam or not... regardless... the whole concept made me want to post "die in a fire!", but i thought i'd reserve judgement until further detail is forthcoming...

Stuart wrote:Um, so you want us to help you spam the Internet, which is one of the very things that frustrate us all beyond belief?

I'm not sure that this is against the rules, so I won't lock it for now, but I seriously hope that no one offers any assistance and this thread just dies a slow and painful death.

Presumably its from his own contact list in Outlook, not from random web pages. Don't think that rates as spam necessarily if the newsletter is for customers or something?

KALSTER wrote:

Stuart wrote:Um, so you want us to help you spam the Internet, which is one of the very things that frustrate us all beyond belief?

I'm not sure that this is against the rules, so I won't lock it for now, but I seriously hope that no one offers any assistance and this thread just dies a slow and painful death.

Presumably its from his own contact list in Outlook, not from random web pages. Don't think that rates as spam necessarily if the newsletter is for customers or something?

I guess. But if it's for customers, why not just let them sign up for the newsletter on a website or something?

Hmmm yeah, extracting email addresses to send them something they didn't sign up for sounds like SPAM to me, but let's wait to hear back...

ryanrich wrote:Hmmm yeah, extracting email addresses to send them something they didn't sign up for sounds like SPAM to me, but let's wait to hear back...

Never mind spam I don't think it is strictly legal in any case.

Are you going to e-mail this "newsletter" to them from Outlook? Why not just create a group and put all your contacts in it and send the mail to the group?

KALSTER wrote:Presumably its from his own contact list in Outlook

see... i don't buy this... if they're in the existing contact list, creating a mailing list does not require regex-scraping maill addies .... <edit>zoiks! Hman beats me to it...</edit>

when you're parsing mail for addresses, you're developing a spam list... hopefully some of those addresses are from spammers, in which case they'll both undergo spamitational collapse and leave the rest of humanity to get on with posting 4 billion twitter updates a second...

With Outlook you'll be lucky to be able to send to more than 25-30 addresses in a single email.

then you'd require a bulk-mailer or mailing service... not the ability to scrape mail addresses.... :/...

<points finger at style121> unclean! unclean!

This reminds me, I think I'll have to put email address up as images on my website.

KALSTER wrote:This reminds me, I think I'll have to put email address up as images on my website.

Good idea.

rustypup wrote: .... <edit>zoiks! Hman beats me to it...</edit>...

I'm sneaky that way.

@ Ratstu, he could just create multiple lists then.

Hman wrote: @ Ratstu, he could just create multiple lists then.

He could, but that's a pain, believe me. We have 200 church members that receive weekly emails and it was just a schlep to create separate distribution lists for each in Outlook.

what about mail merge in word? it allows you to send out individual emails to a group or all your contacts?

Never mind spam I don't think it is strictly legal in any case.

Actually that is why I reported the initial post....either way, I wish you choke and die scenario if he intends to spam....

If not, I am still against the software......

I could not agree more I am locking this thread, I equate this type of email extraction as a form of piracy. As it is one gets these damn mails requesting one to click on the Red + hospital site to show support, one day later my box gets spammed, my own bloody stupidity. Then you have these "petition" mails; no email petitions are acceptable to an institution, they must be signed and have the address of the petitioner; another scam.
These are all attempts to get email addresses, nothing more.
For goodness sake bcc all the addresses, FIGHT SPAM, DAMN.