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Stephen Esrati - 06 Nov 2005 10:48 GMT

I send out mail to a long list of people (from whom I have permission,
so it is not spam). In the past, I simply sent it to the nickname from
my address book, but now I am getting a strange message telling me that
the mailing list is too long.
As a result, I have to send out the stuff in three sections.
But why did this work up to Friday and not work on Saturday?

Stephen G. Esrati

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Alice Faber - 06 Nov 2005 16:41 GMT

> I send out mail to a long list of people (from whom I have permission,
> so it is not spam). In the past, I simply sent it to the nickname from
> my address book, but now I am getting a strange message telling me that
> the mailing list is too long.
> As a result, I have to send out the stuff in three sections.
> But why did this work up to Friday and not work on Saturday?

Perhaps your ISP changed something at the SMTP server level.

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Bill Cole - 06 Nov 2005 18:56 GMT

> > I send out mail to a long list of people (from whom I have permission,
> > so it is not spam). In the past, I simply sent it to the nickname from
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> Perhaps your ISP changed something at the SMTP server level.

That is almost certainly it, and in fact SBC's mail systems seem to have
been in a rolling change this over the past few weeks.

It is a problem that a mail client could and should handle gracefully,
but which many don't. I *thought* Eudora (at least recent versions)
handled the issue correctly, which is not all that hard to so: the
mailer should track which recipient addresses worked and which did not,
and retry the failures later.

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