How do I re-send an email that has some failed recipients

[Guest]

I am sending a group email and some of the addresses in tracking have failed
because I had too many recipients in the list. How can I send the email to
the failed recipients without sending another copy to the other addresses?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I am sending a group email and some of the addresses in tracking have
failed because I had too many recipients in the list. How can I send
the email to the failed recipients without sending another copy to
the other addresses?

Forward the message from your Sent Items folder to those address that
failed.

 

[Herb Martin]

What Brian is saying is that you will have to assemble a list of
failed emails (correct them) and then manually create the new
list.

If this is only a few do it completely by hand.

If it is dozens or certainly if it is hundreds or thousands then
move all of the "failure/bounce" emails to a separate folder,
export to a file then run something like a Perl script through
to match the email format(s) -- naive check would be for
(e-mail address removed) (where com is really Top Level
Domain names).

The following is pretty naive but it works better than you
might expect for a "one line" from the command line (if you have
Perl -- www.ActiveState.Com):

perl -n -e "print if m/\b[\w_.+]+\@([\w-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,4}\b/;" FileName.txt


Ok, it's not THAT naive, it deals with Underscores, dots,
and even + signs in names which might be overlooked by
many people:

(e-mail address removed)
(e-mail address removed)
(e-mail address removed)


If you have that candidate list of bounced emails it is much
easier to correct and confirm them.

Also note that soft bounces may get delivered in a few days.
(e.g., "Could not deliver in N hours/days -- still trying.")