Too Many Recipients

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How many recipients can I send an email to at one time using MS Outlook? Is
there a maximum amount or a limit?
 
Leslie said:
How many recipients can I send an email to at one time using MS
Outlook? Is there a maximum amount or a limit?

If Outlook has a limit, it is very large. The only limitation that matters
is imposed by your ISP. Ask you ISP.
 
I regularly sen up to 300 recipients from my works account
but my home account won't allow any where near that number.
When you send large amounts from your account many ISP's
will see it as spam. I now use a bulk e-mail programme
which is slower but does the job better. Its called
Worldcast and is free to download.
Roger
 
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I regularly sen up to 300 recipients from my works account
but my home account won't allow any where near that number.
When you send large amounts from your account many ISP's
will see it as spam. I now use a bulk e-mail programme
which is slower but does the job better. Its called
Worldcast and is free to download.
Roger

And as a consequence of home users abusing their accounts to send spam
one-at-a-time (using Word's MailMerge or a bulk mailer, like Worldcast),
many ISPs now restrict how many mail sessions (i.e., polls) you can have
per-minute. For example, my ISP allows a max of 10 sessions per minute.
This slows down spamming. So spammers then batch up several separate
e-mails and send them all at once within one mail session. So ISPs
respond by limiting how many messages you can send at once. You end up
with a ceiling on bandwidth per day or month, a ceiling on how many
messages you can spew within one mail session, a ceiling on how many
mail sessions you can have per minute, a ceiling on the number of
recipients per message, and a ceiling on the size of your messages - and
all to combat the a-holes using personal e-mail accounts for bulk
mailings. If you want a business account with larger quotas then pay
for one! Personal e-mail accounts are for *personal* use, not for
spamming nor for huge bulk mailings.
 
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