A1. Hotmail is not compliant with the relevant RFCs.
Imagine that. Of course if they were RFC complaint, they'd only have to
accept a minimum of 100 recipients... Which might still be an issue. Perhaps
a 3rd party mailing list package might be more appropriate... I'm sure it
would be cheaper than writing an event sink to resolve this quandary and
more practical than trying to get Hotmail to comply with industry standards.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Eytcheson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 2:42 PM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: Send to no more than 25 at a time...
>
>
> Exchange 2000 SP1, Windows 2000 SP2, GFI Mail Essentials 2000
> (latest build), Dell PowerEdge 2550, dual P-III 733, 2GB RAM.
>
> Dear Exchange Guru's and Goddesses:
>
> Q: Is there a way to get Exchange to limit the number of
> recipients per message for a specific remote domain? More
> specifically, break a message with more than x number of
> recipients into multiple messages. If so, how?
>
> Explanation: This year, I allowed students to choose whether
> to use their own email address (mail enabled account) or an
> account on our system (mailbox enabled account). All
> students, regardless of their choice of accounts, are added
> to the "All Students" group, allowing the staff to send
> announcements as necessary. This works great except for one
> thing: messages sent to "All Students" always get an NDR
> with every Hotmail user listed.
>
> So, I ask Hotmail support why that might be happening and
> this is their reply: "I understand how inconvenient it is on
> your part but I would like to inform you that we have only a
> limit of 25 recipients per messages."
>
> Great. If you try to include more than 25 Hotmail recipients
> in a single message, Hotmail will reject the entire message.
> So, I need a way to have Exchange break up the message into
> multiple messages with only 25 recipients per each when
> addressed to a Hotmail address. Any ideas? Other solutions?
>
> My only idea at this time is to create several "Hotmail Users
> #x" type groups, and then assign up to 25 Hotmail users per
> group to each of these groups, and add these groups to the
> All Students group. This is way more hands-on than I want to
> get on this; the rest of the process is completely automated.
>
> If I am to be FAQ'ed here, please point to a specific page.
> I have searched the FAQ, Slipstick, groups.google.com,
> northernlight.com, etc. and have found nothing that relates
> to this problem.
>
> Thank you,
> Greg
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