Muhi Majzoub said:
I am trying to send a news letter to multiple users in our soccer
league I
tried sending from OUtlook 2000 but when I click send it crashes
outlook.
The email list is 1830 emails does anyone know if Outlook has a
limitation on
the number of emails you can send to. I tried breaking it into the cc
mail
also no luck. I looked in the MS knowledge base no content. any help
will
be appreciated.
Even if Outlook worked, will your ISP permit that many recipients per
message? Most will limit to under 100, 50, or maybe even just 25.
Breaking it into parts by putting some in the To, some into the Cc, and
some into Bcc is meaningless. Those fields are *not* used when your
e-mail client connects to the mail server. The aggregate of ALL those
fields is used by the e-mail client to send that many RCPT TO commands
to the mail server to designate where to deliver a copy of the *one*
e-mail message that is sent to the mail server in a following DATA
command. I doubt your ISP will accept 1830 RCPT TO commands. Call your
ISP.
If your ISP only permits, say, 100 RCPT TO commands per message then you
need to use a bulk mailing program that sends your e-mails one at a time
or to a smaller number of recipients. You could use Word's MailMerge
but it will send out 1 e-mail per recipient. Expect to spend a lot of
time waiting for Word to crunch through your list and send one e-mail at
a time (i.e., you will be sending 1830 e-mails rather than 1 e-mail to
1830 recipients). You might hit another anti-spam quota at your ISP if
they restrict how many mail sessions are allowed per minute. My ISP
allows 10 mail sessions per minute. I only hit that quota once when
repeatedly resending the same small test message. When you try to use
your e-mail *client* as a server, you'll probably hit several anti-spam
quotas at your ISP.
You might try looking at
http://www.slipstick.com which has a utilities
section where you could find some bulk mailing programs. I remember one
called Mailcast mostly because a user complained about it so I glanced
at it and it looks okay but maybe not for you volume of spewage. You
might have to find a listserver service. You send them one copy of the
e-mail that you want delivered and you send them a list of recipients
and they handle sending a copy of your e-mail to each recipient on the
list. It won't help for you to run a listserver since you'll hit your
ISP's anti-spam quotas. Or you could get a business account with your
ISP that has higher anti-spam quotas (i.e., pay more to spew more).
Does Outlook actuall crash? And what does that mean? That it hangs?
That some error dialog appears? That its window disappears (and
outlook.exe disappears from the Processes tab in Task Manager)?
