[horde] Mails to many mailaddresses

Andy Dorman adorman at ironicdesign.com
Sat Apr 14 00:04:55 UTC 2018


On 4/13/18 4:06 PM, Ralph Ballier wrote:
>   ----- Nachricht von Vijay Sankar <vsankar at foretell.ca> ---------
>    Datum: Sat, 7 Apr 2018 17:49:08 -0500
>      Von: Vijay Sankar <vsankar at foretell.ca>
> Betreff: Re: [horde] Mails to many mailaddresses
>       An: horde <horde at lists.horde.org>
> 
>>> On Apr 7, 2018, at 16:48, Ralph Ballier <ballier at mail.schule.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have try to send a message to more then hundred mail addresses (in 
>>> BCC:)
>>>
>>> I got the error message:
>>>
>>> "Message could not delivered, the address was not found, is unknown, 
>>> or is not receiving messages."
>>>
>>> This is immately after I click on the button "sent".
>>>
>>> I got not message, which mail address is not correct.
>>>
>>> I have search to a bad formatted mail addresses, but I don't find is.
>>>
>>> Ralph
>>> <mime-attachment>
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>>
>> I am just guessing. The problem may be due to a bad email address in 
>> your BCC list. It may be useful to try using lmtp if you are not 
>> already doing that.
>> -- 
> 
> Yes, you are right. I have seen in the log file of the mta. Two local 
> address did not exist anymore. That's why the answer came so fast.
> 
>   If I did not have access to this logfile, I would not have been able 
> to figure out what the error message meant.
> 
> Is not it possible to get a different error message here?
> 
> ----- Ende der Nachricht von Vijay Sankar <vsankar at foretell.ca> -----
> 

Just FYI, filling the BCC with a lot of addresses is a typical spammer 
tactic and will often get your legitimate email refused or tagged as spam.

-- 
Andy Dorman



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