Henri Yandell wrote: > > > On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Ward Oldham wrote: > > >>Hi Group, >> >>With Insightbb, if I have just one invalid email address in the group no >>matter the size of the group, it won?t send anything! I accidentally >>discovered this by double-clicking the failed message to open it in a new >>window, thereby allowing me to resend. But before I clicked Resend, I >>closed my main Entourage window. When I click Resend in this manner, my >>message goes away (normal) but generates a small 1?x2? window giving me a >>progress report or the progression of my email being sent. When I did that, >>it actually brought forward the name of the problem email when the attempt >>to send failed. (You guys following this?) >> >>Is this specific to Insight and is there a workaround? > > > This seems very odd. There's no way for Insight to know an email doesn't > exist [unless its one of their own users]. > > What do you mean by invalid email address? I can imagine the situation you > mention occuring in either: > > 1) You're sending to an invalid Insight user and they're being clever. > 2) You've done an illegal email address, ie) not an invalid one that > doesn't exist, but a 'string' that cannot be an email address. In that > case, the mail server could be blocking yeah. > > Is this making sense? > > >>(and try to refrain from suggestions to keep my address book updated, etc.) > > > Stop using the email address from your ISP ;) > I have this same problem with Bellsouth DSL. I've got to send 100-200 emails out every so often. Unfortunately, the addresses don't always get entered proerly.
When I send the message using Netscape Communicator, it automatically checks all Bellsouth addresses. It gives me a warning dialog if one of them is not an active user. All other addresses must be in the XXX at XXX.XXX format or they get kicked back. I've got to go through the list one by one and delete the addresses that don't match the standard email format. In other words, it sounds pretty normal. I just wish Netscape would give me the problem address when it runs across one. It simply says I've committed a format error and to check my addresses. rob The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
