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by total geek

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Hi,

Is there a limit to how many e-mails can be sent at any one time? I have a client who has a problem with sending mass e-mails. He can send individually but not mass. I am talking in the range of 250-600 using Outlook 2000. No transport provider message is coming up after sending.

Please help

Thanks

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by ann777

There's no such limit -- unless he's exceeding his own mailbox limits...

For instance we allow users to have up to 50 MB stored on our Exchange Servers. When their mailbox exceeds the limit, they cannot send or receive any more until they movesome down into their PST files. Essentailly they have to make space on the server (in their account) before they can send more.

If your client is trying to send a relatively large file to hundreds of users (1 MB file to 400 users-- we're talkingabout 400 MB at once -- which out servers would NOT allow), he may be encountering his own server limitations. Look at storage space on the server and look to see if there are any limits. Check Event Viewer for warnings or errors.

There are no limits outside of what is configured on the server and how much free space is on there.
--- Check with his ISP if he does not have a Exchange Server on his LAN/WAN.

by an_it_guy

If you use ExchangeServer, try checking this.
For Exchange2K:
Go to properties of "Default SMTP Virtual Server". Go to 'Messages' tab. You will find a setting for "Limit Number Of Recepients per message to : " This might be your answer.
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by thechas

Many ISPs limit the number of e-mails that can be sent at once from a 'standard' personal account.

This is done to limit spamming, and control their costs.

Also, the 'typical' ISP limits an individual e-mail account to 5MB total.

Chas

by manmohan74

Hi,

Advice your client to use Mail Merge feature to mass mail even to couple of 1000s in his address book. The problem with this is the system will use lots of resources and processing speed will go down. To better performance he can increase his system resources. alternatively if he is not using too much of graphic/attachments/file size is less, it will work out.

I used to mail to atleast 2000-5000 emails which i typically ran mail merge in the evening before leaving for the day, system would have completed the task by my next morning. Any problem reach me
manmohan74@hotmail.com.

Alternatively this is a third party tool
www.groupmail.com, they also give a limited version for trial, it just costs $99 bucks, incase he dosentwant to clog his system resources.

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