Hi, Main question: Could you clarify the syntax for sending one email message to multiple recipients? In particular, is the required separator a comma? Is semi-colon allowed or only comma? Are plain-text recipients such as [email protected],[email protected] allowed or is it necessary to combine "person" or "team" references? Does the use of plain-text email addresses versus "person" relate in any way to the way the To: and/or Cc: mail headers are generated?
The reason I ask is that I have been having trouble queuing emails to multiple recipients whose domains are hosted with gmail. Here is an example error as reported back to me from the ISP (Sonic.net) sitting between my Servers Alive machine and google: May 14 15:09:18 b.mail.sonic.net sm-mta[6727]: r4EM9HlP006714: to=<[email protected]>, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=180533, relay=aspmx.l.google.com. [74.125.141.27], dsn=4.3.0, stat=Deferred: 451-4.3.0 Multiple destination domains per transaction is unsupported. My email message configuration includes 3 parties, of which 2 are on the same domain, e.g. snip.com in the text above. I had to change the domain name for privacy reasons but otherwise that error message is exact. This rule about multiple destination domains seems to be a new rule from gmail since maybe May 2012. ( https://productforums.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/gmail/qQ3vDWouukk ) I only ran into it now because of the need to alert two mailboxes at the same domain. The reason I'm asking about the syntax is because I'm wondering whether there is any way that I can control the number of separate To: or Cc: headers generated, or whether I really have to create separate alerts when there need to be multiple recipients at the same google-hosted domain. Fyi: Yesterday I ran into an unrelated problem which essentially hung Servers Alive - rendered it unable to check every URL in its list. That was: multiple checks running into repeat 302 bounce loops - bouncing back to the same URL that it was trying to test. This was essentially a problem that happened on multiple servers, multiple sites, all at once. However I wanted to let you know the SA did not really recover. I tried stopping and starting the service, and rebooting the whole machine, and none of that helped. S.A. would get through a few requests but literally got stuck, leaving the majority of the URLs "unchecked since..." 4 hours time. Eventually I realized the root cause, fixed the 302 problem, and then of course SA worked as per normal. Best, Ann To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line to [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), make sure that they are not sent to the list nor to individual members. Doing so will cause you to be automatically removed from the list.
