"Too many recipients"

[Lu]

I am using Outlook 2000 SR-1.

I have two opt-in groups in my email address book, comprised of about 100
contacts. I can send an email to all those contacts at once, no problem.

But it had been a larger group and I found that I would get the error
message "too many recipients" and the email would not go out.. it would stay
in my outbox... so I broke the group into two parts.

When I don't use an established group, but just click on email addresses to
bcc: a message to a bunch of friends... I suppose I could get up over 100. I
don't know how many. But often I will get that same message "too many
recipients".

Then, I have to cut segments of the addresses and paste them into duplicate
messages. When doing this, I find it won't go out with more than about 20
addresses.

Does anyone know where these limitations are coming from and how I can work
with it?

Thanks,

Lu

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

They're coming from your outbound mail server. Check with either your ISP or
internal mail administrator to see if there's anything that can be done (but
I doubt they're going to change things)

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Those limitations are imposed by your mail server, not Outlook.