Schedule email delivery after hours?

[Oscar Piсуn]

Hello,

I have a scenario in which newsletters must be sent once or twice a week to
thousands of subscribers (not spam). The environment is Exchange 2003.
Connectivity is a full T1.

Using a dedicated workstation and user account, a mail merge routine takes
place. The CPU on the workstation used until a week ago was outdated and
the mail merge would take several hours to run which caused no problems
other than a long time to complete which was okay.

A week ago, the workstation's CPU got upgraded and now the mail merge
process runs several times faster than before. The problem now is that the
T1 line gets saturated because of all the emails that must be delivered
affecting day-time connectivity.

Is there a way to create an exchange connector or something that could be
applied to this one account and apply an schedule for deliveries? What I
would like to see happening is that, the associate in charge of sending the
newsletter can run the mail merge during business hours, then all such
emails will get queued up in the Exchange server during business hours and
start the delivery process at midnight or so.

Thank you for your help!

Oscar

[Mark Arnold [MVP]]

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:54:33 -0800, "Oscar Piсуn" <m...@focus360.com>
wrote:

Sure:
http://www.msexchange.me.uk/rg1.mht gives words and pictures. Thing to
make sure of is that all messages are sent from a specific account
otherwise any user sending from that account will find their "normal"
messages jsut getting delayed.