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As a software developer that must account for project time, I am required to send in daily emails to 3 senior members of our development team.

So that I will not forget, I set up a daily task for this to launch a new email before I go home every day.

Trigger

Using Command-line switches for Outlook 2013, I was able to specify the argument using a single email address as the argument in the list, the task works fine:

Argument 1 email

If you cannot see the argument text, it is:

/c ipm.note /m [email protected]&subject=Daily%20Log

One email address works fine, but I need to include the email to 3 people - not 1.

So, I edited the argument to be as follows:

/c ipm.note /m [email protected],[email protected],[email protected]&subject=Daily%20Log

If I try running that, I get an invalid argument message:

invalid argument

I read up on how to create a Group Distribution List, and I added that to Outlook's Contacts section:

daily log group

Then, I edited my Task's argument to use this group:

/c ipm.note /m DailyLogGroup&subject=Daily%20Log

This works, but the result is not my Distribution Group, but rather just the text in the address field.

DailyLogGroup email

Does anyone know how to make a Distribution Group work in this scripted version of Outlook?

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Wrap the /m argument in quotes, and use semicolons (;) to separate the names.

i.e.:

outlook.exe /c ipm.note /m "[email protected];[email protected];[email protected]&subject=Daily%20Log"
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  • Thanks! I tried being as descriptive as possible, including numerous pics, hoping others would see this post and be able to do the same. There was nothing on how to do this online.
    – jp2code
    Mar 3, 2015 at 18:00

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