We are running Windows XP in our office. We are in the process of planning
the migration from Office 2000 to Office 2003 but we are running into what
seem to be limitation within Outlook 2003 that we don't experience in Outlook
200.
I have clients that have distribution folders and some folders contain 700+
email contact. Under Outlook 2000 you can open the distribution folder and
select all contacts and then click on "New Message to Contacts" and it will
open a new email envelope.
When I try the same task using Outlook 2003 it will work if I only select
less than 250 clients. If I select 250 or more clients it comes back with an
error message " The Operation Failed"

I've tried this before and after applying all the updated and service packs
for Office 2003 and it responds in the same manner.

Any information would be helpfull.

Thanks.

Outlook 2003 will run into a 250 open RPC channel limit against Exchange.

A better solution anyway would be to use the contacts in those folders to perform a mail merge using the Tools | Mail Merge command.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Dave Lopez" Dave wrote in message ...
We are running Windows XP in our office. We are in the process of planning
the migration from Office 2000 to Office 2003 but we are running into what
seem to be limitation within Outlook 2003 that we don't experience in Outlook
200.
I have clients that have distribution folders and some folders contain 700+
email contact. Under Outlook 2000 you can open the distribution folder and
select all contacts and then click on "New Message to Contacts" and it will
open a new email envelope.
When I try the same task using Outlook 2003 it will work if I only select
less than 250 clients. If I select 250 or more clients it comes back with an
error message " The Operation Failed"

I've tried this before and after applying all the updated and service packs
for Office 2003 and it responds in the same manner.

Any information would be helpfull.

Thanks.