I got this message,452 4.5.3 Too many recipients, what does this m

[rcmm]

I got this message,452 4.5.3 Too many recipients, what does this mean?
Thank You

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

Usually it means there are too many people in the To, CC and/or BCC fields
on an outgoing email

 

[Ann R.]

My distribution list has 126 names. Will be happy to break it down. What is
the maximum number of people the distribution list will take? Thanks.

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

It varies based on mail server configuration. It's not an Outlook setting.

 

[Ann R.]

Thank you. That was a very key piece of information. Now I can go back to my
ISP and get this solved.

 

[Guest]

Is there a maximum number of recipients?

Usually it means there are too many people in the To, CC and/or BCC fields
on an outgoing email

 

[Ann R.]

There may be depending upon who your ISP is. Found out that on my particular
ISP there is a limit of 25 recipients distributed between the To: CC: and
BCC: fields. They are trying to locate a commercial server where there isn't
a limit on the number of recipients. There is a limit of 10 recipients in the
To: field.

So if you are experiencing difficulty with this, you may want to check into
the different ISPs. But until I got the official information from Microsoft
that this was NOT determined by Outlook, I kept getting bounced between the
anti-virus people and the ISP.

Hope this helped.

 

[Brian Tillman]

There may be depending upon who your ISP is. Found out that on my
particular ISP there is a limit of 25 recipients distributed between
the To: CC: and BCC: fields. They are trying to locate a commercial
server where there isn't a limit on the number of recipients. There
is a limit of 10 recipients in the To: field.

A Mail Merge can overcome this limitation with any ISP because it selds each
message individually. Some ISPs also limit how many messsages can be sent
within a certain timeframe as well, and a mail merge may not be able to
overcome that.