can't send email using BCC in Outlook 2003

[Guest]

I have just finished transferring my Outlook Express 6 to Outlook 2003 -
included everything - address book, etc. I am trying to send an email using
Outlook to a group of people - I set up distribution lists. The email won't
go out if I put a group of people in the BCC field. It went out with 1
person in the BCC field. I tried it with about 12 people in the BCC field
and it wouldn't go out.

How can I fix this as I like to hide the names of the recipients?

Thank you

 

[Guest]

Further note - I tried it with 3 people in the BCC field and it went out. It
must be that it won't go out with a distribution list in the BCC field.

Please let me know how to fix this.

Thanks

 

[Guest]

Sorry to be troubleshooting this on the cuff. I tried a distribution list
with 3 people in it in the BCC field and it went out. So maybe it's that I
had too many people in the BCC field in the emails that wouldn't go out.
This is a problem for me because 12 people is not very many and I want to be
able to send to up to 100.

Please let me know how to troubleshoot this.

Thanks.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Sorry to be troubleshooting this on the cuff. I tried a distribution
list with 3 people in it in the BCC field and it went out. So maybe
it's that I had too many people in the BCC field in the emails that
wouldn't go out. This is a problem for me because 12 people is not
very many and I want to be able to send to up to 100.

The limit on the number of recipients is set by your ISP, not Outlook,
however, one ususally receives a non-delivery report from the server when
the limit it exceeded. If I had to troubleshoot this, I'd enable
diagnostice logging and then examine the log to see what's happening during
a send. See this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/831053/en-us