"Error: Too many recipients" - Since my ISPdoesn't limit, why does this happen

[Ulysses_11]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I have created several email groups, and I find it hard to believe that a group of 75 email addresses is too many. How could this be? I have tried everything to get around this but can't figure it out. Anyone have a suggestion?

I'm running Entourage 2004 11.4.0

thanks,
Ulysses_11

 

[CyberTaz]

Hello Ulysses_11 -

I don't mean to cast aspersions on your ISP, but the very fact that you
refer to one suggests that whoever you spoke to very well may have been
misinformed. Almost all *ISPs* impose a limit because of their effort to
avoid being used a host for spamming operations. They may also restrict
volume in other ways which is simply being interpreted as "too many".

I honestly don't know if Entourage imposes a limit or not & haven't found
anything to that effect in the resources I have available - plus the fact
that I've been away from the '04 version for some time. You might try
posting to the Entourage group where the insights are a bit more extensive:

microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage

Or from the Mactopia interface:

http://www.officeformac.com/ProductForums/Entourage/

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie]

Google, Yahoo and MSN/Windows Live all offer Mailing Lists.

You might consider creating a mailing list for your purpose. This allows
people to opt-in or opt-out of the list at will. It also means you only
have to tie up your computer sending ONE email: the server "bursts" your
email to all of the rest for you.

An email with more than about ten addresses on it becomes very unwieldy, for
both the sender and the recipients. Trust me, if *I* received an email with
75 addresses on it, *I* would instantly block you from sending me any
further mail.

You should also consider that placing 75 addresses on an email delivers the
entire mailing list to every recipient (unless you add them all to the BCC
field). That said, I was not aware that Microsoft Word had any ability to
send email, and you are in the Word newsgroup.

However, you might also investigate Word's Mail Merge feature: that will
send to an unlimited number of recipients using Entourage, but each outgoing
email has only one recipient address. The worst that can happen if a bad
guy gets hold of one of your transmissions, is that you compromise a single
address.

Hope this helps

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I have created several email groups, and I find it hard to believe that a
group of 75 email addresses is too many. How could this be? I have tried
everything to get around this but can't figure it out. Anyone have a
suggestion?

I'm running Entourage 2004 11.4.0

thanks,
Ulysses_11

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