Too many recipients for message (Windows Mail)

[queenbee]

whats the limit on how many recipients 1 email can have? i have a group file
in my addy book and when i try to send an email i get error message that 1 of
the email addys is not right and it will not send to anyone.

 

[t-4-2]

I believe the limit is set by your ISP. Talk to them.
The fact that e-mail won't get sent because of an error in one of the
addresses has nothing to do with the limit. Just input the correct address
and remove the wrong one.
t-4-2

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

The recipient limit is set by each mail service provider. Windows Mail does
not have a limit. Who is your mail provider?

You will have to find that one bad email address in the group.
Use a 'divide and conquer' technique.

 

[queenbee]

comcast is my email provider

The recipient limit is set by each mail service provider. Windows Mail does
not have a limit. Who is your mail provider?

You will have to find that one bad email address in the group.
Use a 'divide and conquer' technique.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Comcast is responsible for setting the maximum number of recipients
when you use their outgoing (SMTP) mail server. Ask them.

The bad email address in the group is an unrelated problem.

 

[queenbee]

Thank you very much for your help, i have solved the "to many reciepents"
problem by making the large group into 2 smaller ones, i do however have to
send 2 seperate emails 1 for each of the groups. i will find out from
comcast what there max number of reciepents are.
thank you again!

 

[Sky King]

Hi, Gary;

There once was a limt of 255 characters in the To: line; do you know if that
still exists in WM? I tend to think that went away but can't find any
documentation on it.

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....Sky
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The recipient limit is set by each mail service provider. Windows Mail does
not have a limit. Who is your mail provider?
....

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

I don't know, but if WM has a limit, it would only be for the purpose
of conforming to the international standards for email.
Are you talking about one email address, or multiple email addresses
in the To: line?

 

[Sky King]

Multiples. It wasn't a standards issue, but rather a string-length issue, I
think.

So I started poking around some more on the web to try finding this info,
and came up with this page:
http://www.emailaddressmanager.com/tips/email-address-limit.html

It seems that most of the providers listed have a 100 addressee limit. Also
found a reference that OE had that limitation as well. That is obviously
way, way over my 255 character limit.

Also found that a couple of RFC's
(http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3696#section-3 summarizes these) limit the
address to 64 characters in the "local name" part (your "gary" for example)
and 255 characters in the "domain name" part (your listed "NoMail.invalid"
part). Perhaps that domain name part is what I recalled instead of the
whole address string having that limit.

Oh, well; learned a bit anyway.


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....Sky
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I don't know, but if WM has a limit, it would only be for the purpose
of conforming to the international standards for email.
Are you talking about one email address, or multiple email addresses
in the To: line?

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

The RFC limit for character length applies to the individual email address,
while the limit for total number of recipients is set by each provider,
where (as you say) the typical limit is 100. OE/WM has no limit for that,
as far as I know.