Outlook 2000: How Can I Weed Out Bad addresses when sending email to a Group

[Kevin Martin]

I constructed a GROUP of 75 contacts from my address book
in Outlook 2000. When I try to send an email to
the "GROUP", I get the ol' "message could not be sent
because one of the recipients was rejected by the server"
message. Isn't there a way for the program to help me
determine which addresses are bad, instead of having to
go through each individual address one at a time?

Thank You!
Kev

 

[Vanguard]

Don't know the answer to your specific question. Doesn't look like
Outlook has any auto-update-on-error to purge iffy contacts. But then
do you really want to do this? The rejection could be that the username
is invalid (and you would want to remove that contact), or their mailbox
quota has been exceeded (they'll have to purge old e-mails to get more
disk space), or their mail server happened to be down at the time your
mail server sent your e-mail (so you'll want to keep them in the list
for the next mailing), or some other reasons for the rejection. Also,
isn't this a bounceback e-mail from the *server* telling you about the
rejection *when* it got around to actually sending your e-mail? If so,
your Outlook client isn't even connected when your mail server generated
this message so there would be no way to update Outlook due to an error
during the SMTP handshaking when Outlook was previously connected.