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Jerry
A member of staff at one of my clients screwed-up by posting email addressees
into the To; field instead of the Bcc: field. Unfortunately there were 1500
addressees and it appears that the senders ISP does not apply a limit to the
number of recipients on emails.
Apart from the error in showing email addresses, the messsage has triggered
a huge amount of redirected mail apparently from recipients who have Exchange
Server 2003, which are reading the addressees as outside their domain and
resending with the result that the message is being received literally
hundreds of times. You can imagine the flak that is flying!
The originator has issued instuctions to everyone to block the senders email
address and has directed companies with the Exchange Server 2003 to this page
where a resolution is found: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=835734
Inevitably there might be some backside covering, so my question is this:
apart from the error in posting to the To: field, is the error solely with
the recipients servers resending, or is there anything likely to have been
done wrongly elsewhere?
Sorry for the long question, but I am trying to get simple messages for the
client to include in their apologies.
Thanks
into the To; field instead of the Bcc: field. Unfortunately there were 1500
addressees and it appears that the senders ISP does not apply a limit to the
number of recipients on emails.
Apart from the error in showing email addresses, the messsage has triggered
a huge amount of redirected mail apparently from recipients who have Exchange
Server 2003, which are reading the addressees as outside their domain and
resending with the result that the message is being received literally
hundreds of times. You can imagine the flak that is flying!
The originator has issued instuctions to everyone to block the senders email
address and has directed companies with the Exchange Server 2003 to this page
where a resolution is found: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=835734
Inevitably there might be some backside covering, so my question is this:
apart from the error in posting to the To: field, is the error solely with
the recipients servers resending, or is there anything likely to have been
done wrongly elsewhere?
Sorry for the long question, but I am trying to get simple messages for the
client to include in their apologies.
Thanks