It's looking more and more like invalid Insightbb email addresses. Ward Oldham
On 10/3/02 10:23 PM, "Henri Yandell" <bayard at generationjava.com> 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 ;) > > > 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>. > 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>.
