No, I mean a number between 100 and 199 which I can't remember off the top of my head and isn't exactly a fixed number to begin with in my experience. Anyway, for the purposes of this discussion 1XX means a number significantly lower than 700+. There's an amazingly insightful article about it at exchange.devx.com written by some Exchange Pro fellers.
Chris -- Chris Scharff Senior Sales Engineer MessageOne If you can't measure, you can't manage! > -----Original Message----- > From: Ed Sanborn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 4:02 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Distribution List - what if 700+ > > > What do you mean limited to 1XX entries? Do you mean 199? > > -Ed > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Scharff > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 3:29 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Distribution List - what if 700+ > > > Exchange is an excellent tool for large mailings. The > Exchange 2000/IIS 5 SMTP engine is among the fastest spam > engines on the planet. The Exchange 5.5 SMTP engine was no > slouch either. > > Outlook contacts are limited to 1XX entries, which is an > Exchange/Outlook issue, but good freaking luck in getting > either group to claim ownership of the issue and resolve it. > Anyway.. Since this is now an Outlook question I'll defer to > the FAQ and point to www.slipstick.com as the appropriate > point for research. > > However, without a compelling need for them to be contacts, a > copy and paste from Visual-Inter-Notepad works with a minimum > of muss and fuss. > > Chris > -- > Chris Scharff > Senior Sales Engineer > MessageOne > If you can't measure, you can't manage! > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mellott, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 2:32 PM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: RE: Distribution List - what if 700+ > > > > > > umm thx chris. > > It was a restriction/issue that popped up when I tried to > > make a DL with > > 700+ recp in it from contacts. That's when Exch cried... saw > > some Q's on > > technet about it, but no good answers why it would > > cry...Other then what Ive seen in the list here about Exch > > being a poor source for such large type mailing ...etc... I > > was really trying to do the DL so my user(s) could do mass > > e-mail and fax sending via OL2K without much other hoops for > > them to jump thru...this place is it's own 3 ring. > > > > thx > > bill > > > > GroupWise would have never cried ;-) > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 3:13 PM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: RE: Distribution List - what if 700+ > > > > > > Well, if I were creating the e-mail, I'd know exactly what > > I'd configured in the registry the maximum number of > > recipients to be in a single message. So, I'd send it out > > with at least 1 fewer bcc recipient than that, and then I'd > > send out n more messages until I was done. > > > > But by default, Exchange has no limit on the number of > > recipients in a mail message and 95% of the "administrators" > > on this list are too lazy to have even considered > > implementing the registry change. > > > > Chris > > -- > > Chris Scharff > > Senior Sales Engineer > > MessageOne > > If you can't measure, you can't manage! > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Mellott, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:39 PM > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > Subject: RE: Distribution List - what if 700+ > > > > > > > > > Interesting But what if the user say had like 700+ > contacts to "send > > > too" and the exchnage system returned an error about over > > > limit...too many.... > > > > > > bill > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Doug Hampshire [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 1:35 PM > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > Subject: RE: Distribution List > > > > > > > > > Lazy man's way. Export SMTP addresses to a txt file. Cut > and paste > > > to the BCC in Outlook. Done. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: MS Exchange Mailing List > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, > > > November 13, 2001 10:12 AM > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > Subject: Distribution List > > > > > > > > > Greetings all... > > > I need to send an html newsletter to about 200 associates > > > external to the company. What is the easiest way to send such > > > a message without too much effort. Creating a distribution > > > list for this many contacts seems impractical. Is there a way > > > to import smtp addresses to a distribution list from an > > > external source such as a database? Would like to accomplish > > > this without buying extra software, if possible. 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