Exchange 2010 - Send email bulk email to addresses in CSV file

[IKWeb]

Morning All

 

I hope someone can help, our marketing dept. has got a list of around 2000 email address which have been collected (legitimately) over the past few years.

 

They have them in a CSV file, and they want to be able to mailshot them all in one go. They have tried by outlook but outlook can’t hack that many contacts, and falls over.

 

Now I know they could cut them down, and send 100 at a time etc, but with exchange 2010 there must be a way to use PowerShell to drop this email into the mail Q and let exchange process it???

 

So my question is does anyone do this already, and what kinda script do you use?? and would you be willing to share?

 

Many thanks in advance

[sukh]

Why not create a DL and import the contacts into their. Send email to the DL.

[MatthewL]

Mail merge?

[IKWeb]

Why not create a DL and import the contacts into their. Send email to the DL.

 

Yes, this would be an option, but I would rather do it from PowerShell if its poss...

[Arthur]

You could import a list of e-mail addresses into an existing distribution group from a text file via PowerShell...

 

Get-Content X:\Users.txt | ForEach-Object { Add-DistributionGroupMember –Identity DGName -Member $_ }

 

Users.txt should contain one e-mail address per line i.e.

 

[email protected]
[email protected]

[sukh]

Follow Arthurs method.