How Many Addresses In Group?

  • Thread starter Tony Ward-Smith
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Tony Ward-Smith

There seems to be a limit as to how many e-mail addresses can be
included in a group...or am I right about that? I started with a long
list (100 names) and got stuck. Cut the list down to five with 20 names
each...then it seemed to work. BUT-- if I post a long list of names
individually (lot of work!) in the "TO" or "CC" address section, it will
take more than 20, right? What's the best way to address a single e-mail
to a long list of names? (and many thanks for the help from this
newsgroup!)
 
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Alan Schaevitz

There is no limit as to the size of a group in Entourage. The limit is set
by your ISP. Check with them to see what the largest list is that they
allow. If you want to have more than that in one list, use Paul Berkowitz'
Split Recipients script ( http://www.scriptbuilders.net/).
 
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Michel Bintener

Hi Tony.
In many cases, the e-mail provider will restrict the number of addressees in
order to prevent their servers from being used by spammers. Maybe that's
also the case for you. I'm not aware of any restriction on the side of
Entourage.
Problems could also show up if one or more e-mail addresses inside the group
you created are no longer valid, but since you're writing that it works fine
if you use 5 groups with 20 names, I assume all your addresses are
up-to-date. If you type in e-mail addresses manually, and if my first
assumption is correct, you should not be able to send e-mails to more than
100 persons simultaneously, but I guess you (understandably) won't feel like
testing this. Contact your e-mail provider in case of doubt. The best
solution is probably to create smaller groups, maybe try 2 of 50 first and
see if that works.

Michel
 
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Allen Watson

I've actually sent a message to a group with over 1000 members, with
partial success. All the messages went out, but certain ISPs, notably
AOL, detected a bunch of identical messages coming from the same IP
address and flagged my message as spam (it was a requested message, not
spam). The same thing could happen if I sent the message out in groups
of 50 addresses at a time, unless I spaced them out over several hours.

Generally, though, many ISPs won't accept a message with more than
fifty addresses. If I have more than that, I usually try to break it up
into groups of 50. (I have an Applescript I use...)
 
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