On 02/17/2003, chris wrote: >I had problems long ago with Earthlink in that they rejected any email >that was all BCC. I got around it my inserting my own address as the >first TO line, and then BCC'd everyone else. However, my problem is that *other* servers (outside of Earthlink) are the ones not accepting the BCC's. The error messages are from the Hotmail.com and other mail servers, balking at receiving the BCC's.
>I also seem to recall Earthlink limites to a max of 25 addresses per >email, so if you are over 25, they might be rejecting it. I at one time would get an error message in my Error logs when sending more than 25 out, but it would still send them (I believe what happened was that Emailer sent the second batch after it would get the error message from Earthlink's outgoing server). But more recently, I get no error messages/logs on it. On average, I'm forwarding to about 40 or so persons. The error messages I mentioned in my original post were about 7 out of these 40 that Hotmail rejected. > >You may want to look into bulk email software if you are sending lots of >these types of emails. If its just the occasionaly fowarded joke, its >probably not worth the effort, but if this is for a newsletter or >similar, it could be. No, this is just the occasional joke or interesting piece - I went to sending to all 40 because it saved time from my former method - one group (less than 25) for those I know from one organization, another (less than 25) that are my usual jokes group of friends, another group of people whom I know from churches here in town (also less than 25 persons total), etc. I would then file each separate email in its own folder. I decided to reduce the number of emails to file/archive and went to one email using my address book to Command-click just the ones who would find the particular email of interest. This would usually give me some 30-45 persons on the BCC'ed email. >I have a public domain bulk emailing tool on my web site. It requires >FileMaker, AppleScript, and Emailer, and isn't the greatest thing in the >world, but it does the job. You are free to grab a copy and use it. I >wrote the thing in about 10 or 15 minutes and used it for years. (I more >recently have written a new, more powerful, faster, stand alone tool... >but the new tool isn't universal enough to release to the public yet) However, due to (1) my not having Filemaker (except a runtime version for eMA (which I'm trying out), and (2) the lower number of emails I'm BCC'ing, I can't see justifying the cost of FM for this. Thanks for the help, though. Maybe I will have to go back to using my specific lists and put them in their respective folders. The irony of this is that the spammers appear able to get past mail servers to get emails to me, but I can't get my email forwards to my friends. Pooh!... :-/ Jim Rohde ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
