On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Beth Rosengard wrote: > On 10/25/07 8:01 AM, "Adam Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Let's say I create an e-mail and put 20 e-mail addresses separated by > >> commas > >> in either the CC or BCC field. > > > >> - if one of the addresses is bad - what happens to the email when sending: > >> > >> 1 - nothing is sent??? > >> 2 - all are sent ( except for the bad address)??? > >> 3 - the addresses that were correct up to the point of the bad address were > >> sent - and then the rest were not sent??? > > > > All of the emails will be sent, and the one with the bad address will > > (hopefully) bounce back to you later. > > > > UNLESS the bad address is on the same ISP as you, in which case the entire > > thing will (likely) not be sent and you will immediately be notified of the > > failure. > > Actually, I think it depends on what is meant by "bad". > > If you mean that the email address is inactive, for instance, then Adam is > correct. > > But if you mean that the email address is malformed (no @, for instance), > then I believe you'll get an error message. And I seem to remember that > nothing is sent (though I could be wrong about that) until you locate and > fix or delete the bad address.
I agree that this depeneds on what "bad" means. Case 1: you get an Entourage error and the message remains in the Out Box: In that case, nothing has been sent to anyone as either Entourage never talked to the outgoing mail server or the error occurred early in the communications protocol between Entourage and the mail server. As Beth stated, this occurs because an address is syntactically invalid. Case 2: the message leaves the Out Box and is moved (if appropriate) to Sent Items and you then get a bounce message either from your outgoing mail server or a downline mail server: In that case, delivery has been attempted to all recipients and all valid recipients have or will receive it. Once the outgoing mail server has the message, the order of delivery to the various recipients is undefined so it may well have already been delivered to some before the outgoing mail server gets an error on the bad address. -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
