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Large Distribution ListI need to put several thousands e-mail of our partners and customers into a distribution list for marketing mass-mailing purposes. I have several questions regarding this issue: 1) Is it a good idea to put so many contacts into Active Directory? 2) if I create these contacts in Exchange's Public Folders, will they be created in AD or in Exchange store? 3) I have to group these contacts into Distribution List. What about performance of such large list? Is it better to split it into several smaller DLs, and than group these DLs into one DL? I have simple AD environment with 3 servers in one domain, all in this same location. There is only one Exchange 2003 server. I am new in Exchange administration and planning that's why I'm not sure if Exchange is good place to store mass-contacts. Thanks for you advice Responses inline.
-- Bharat Suneja MVP - Exchange www.zenprise.com NEW blog location: exchangepedia.com/blog ---------------------------------------------- Show quote "Przemo Karlikowski" <karlik.remove.t***@post.pl> wrote in message AD is quite scalable, several thousand shouldn't be a problem.news:eWFXhktJIHA.5208@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Hello > > > > I need to put several thousands e-mail of our partners and customers into > a distribution list for marketing mass-mailing purposes. > > > > I have several questions regarding this issue: > > 1) Is it a good idea to put so many contacts into Active Directory? Whether you want to have a GAL with 1000s of Contacts, and as a result a larger Offline Address Book as well, is something you may want to consider. You can modify the Default GAL filter to exclude Contacts, and have them show up in the All Contacts address list, or create custom address lists to filter based on parameters like company. > Public Folders reside in Exchange Stores, so Contacts created in PFs don't > 2) if I create these contacts in Exchange's Public Folders, will they be > created in AD or in Exchange store? get created in AD. > Better to split into smaller ones, with one DL grouping the smaller DLs.> 3) I have to group these contacts into Distribution List. What about > performance of such large list? Is it better to split it into several > smaller DLs, and than group these DLs into one DL? Show quote > > > > I have simple AD environment with 3 servers in one domain, all in this > same location. There is only one Exchange 2003 server. > > I am new in Exchange administration and planning that's why I'm not sure > if Exchange is good place to store mass-contacts. > > > > Thanks for you advice > > > > Przemo Karlikowski <karlik.remove.t***@post.pl> wrote:
Show quote > Hello To add to Bharat's advice, I would suggest you look into a listserve app for > > > > I need to put several thousands e-mail of our partners and customers > into a distribution list for marketing mass-mailing purposes. > > > > I have several questions regarding this issue: > > 1) Is it a good idea to put so many contacts into Active Directory? > > 2) if I create these contacts in Exchange's Public Folders, will they > be created in AD or in Exchange store? > > 3) I have to group these contacts into Distribution List. What about > performance of such large list? Is it better to split it into several > smaller DLs, and than group these DLs into one DL? > > > > I have simple AD environment with 3 servers in one domain, all in > this same location. There is only one Exchange 2003 server. > > I am new in Exchange administration and planning that's why I'm not > sure if Exchange is good place to store mass-contacts. > > > > Thanks for you advice any regular mass-mailing purpose. Exchange/Outlook are not really meant for this - there's no subscribe/unsubscribe, no easy handling of bounces, .... and you are likely to get tagged as a spammer and perhaps blacklisted if you're using a DL rather than a mail merge. If you can't afford (or justify) your own Lyris server, there are plenty of outside companies who will provide this sort of service. Just my $.02. We have several SQL databases with different types of contacts and we need
to merge them into one mailing database - so anyway I have to write something to synchronize these databases, so if contact is deleted in CRM it will also be deleted in Exchange. And I prefer to use Exchange mechanism for creating, editing, queuing and sending mails rather than writing it on my own. Anyway, thank you for you help. Best regards PK "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" <lanwe***@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmailatyahoo.com> wrote in message Show quote news:ev3WzpuJIHA.4472@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > To add to Bharat's advice, I would suggest you look into a listserve app > for any regular mass-mailing purpose. Exchange/Outlook are not really > meant for this - there's no subscribe/unsubscribe, no easy handling of > bounces, .... and you are likely to get tagged as a spammer and perhaps > blacklisted if you're using a DL rather than a mail merge. > > If you can't afford (or justify) your own Lyris server, there are plenty > of outside companies who will provide this sort of service.  |
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