group contacts

[Jim R]

When I send an email using a large group and just one of the emails in the
group is an incorrect or improper email, it will give an error message and
tell you that the email is not being sent because of the email:
(e-mail address removed)
One would think that all of the other email addresses would get the message,
but it won't. Is there a way to correct it so the email will at least go
out to the other correct addresses? Thanks

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

No. All the addresses have to be correct before it sends.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

When I send an email using a large group and just one of the emails in the
group is an incorrect or improper email, it will give an error message and
tell you that the email is not being sent because of the email:
(e-mail address removed)
One would think that all of the other email addresses would get the
message,
but it won't.

Outlook Express behaves exactly the same way.

Is there a way to correct it so the email will at least go
out to the other correct addresses? Thanks

No, you have to wait for the mail to send.

Eventually your email list will be cleaned up and until somebody moves, the
problem will go away.

HTH
-pk

 

[Jim R]

What do you meanby "cleaned up?" Do you mean that if I let it hang it will
eventually send? Or do I have to go in and remove the emails?

 

[Patrick Keenan]

What do you meanby "cleaned up?" Do you mean that if I let it hang it
will
eventually send? Or do I have to go in and remove the emails?

First, as a hint, I think you're trying to replying to me, but you replied
to the parent message.

Second, by cleaned up, I mean invalid email addresses fixed or removed.
Yes, this takes some manual work and there's no way around it.

No, the mail will not eventually send with bad addresses. It's stopped; it
will not ever send with invalid addresses in the group.

You don't have to remove all of the email addresses. The message is stuck
in the outbox, and you got a message saying that a specific address wasn't
recognised. Write it down, locate it in the to, cc, or bcc line, and
delete it. Try sending again. Repeat until the message actually leaves
the outbox.

Then, go back and look at the addresses that were rejected. You may find
obvious errors (spaces, misspellings, missing domain, etc). Fix those,
and resend the message to those specific ones. For those where the error
isn't obvious, try sending the mail to those one at a time and look for
bounceback messages from their mail servers. If you need to find another
way to verify the address, remove it from the list till you can.

This happens to me regularly; as part of my work I send a document to a list
of people, and if there are new addresses I've had to copy or enter
manually, there will be a few errors. At least, once the cleanup is done,
you know that those addresses are fine (unless they terminate their
service).

By the way, this can be made much easier by using a message template you've
saved to a folder, but there's been a problem with that for some time. OE
and Windows Mail broke "compose mode" for saved mails, so you can't save a
message as a template anywhere but the Drafts folder, and messages saved
there are gone once send. Fortunately, there's a fix, and it just takes a
simple registry addition.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918766/

Note that while this specifies msimn.exe, it also works for Windows Mail
with no changes. And if you try to run msimn.exe on Vista, it launches
(or brings to focus) Windows Mail.

HTH
-=pk

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Who are you replying to?
The convention here is to quote the message you are replying to.