Re(2): bcc not consistently working
That's a lot of BCC's. A lot of the new SPAM filters will also trigger with this many BCC recipients. I would check with the server admin of your ISP or the person in charge of your network and make sure they don't enforce any limits on BCC recipients. Thanks for the suggestion. I double-checked with my ISP and because I have a business account, there is no limit on the # of bcc recipients I can send to. I have my own home network and I didn't set a limit. Thanks for prompting me to check these kinds of potential sources for the problem. Ken
Re(2): bcc not consistently working
was there ANYTHING special about these 2 messages? If there was, I sure couldn't spot it. All messages are in ascii (no HTML) without attachments. These 2 didn't seem longer or to differ from the others in any way that I could see. if not, the only thought I have on this is that maybe PM has a limit as to how many BCC's it can take and you have gone past that limit and the overflow is causing a bug? quickest solution I could think of is to make groups which contain 1,000 names and not more (so currently you would have 2 groups, 1 with 1,000 and one with 300) and then send the identical message to each group. Thanks for the suggestion! Ken
bcc not consistently working
I use PM 5.5.3 on a MacBook Pro (2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo) with Tiger 10.4.9 and with 1 GB Ram. For years I've run an opt-in-only list, sending each message to myself with the members listed as BCCs. Gradually the list has grown and now I send several messages a day (news items, etc.) to the 1,300 members. Twice in the last 2 days there has been a problem when I send messages (previously no problems at all, and so far, the problem has occurred only once each day while the day's other messages are sent OK). The problem is that although I send each message to myself with the members listed as BCCs, in the 2 problematic instances, ALL of the BCCs showed up in the headers, causing some of the receiving servers to reject the post but the other members received the messages with all names and email addresses revealed. PLEASE HELP! As you can imagine, this is a real problem for me. I would *greatly* appreciate suggestions about what is going wrong and how I might fix the problem. Thanks! Ken
Re: bcc not consistently working
was there ANYTHING special about these 2 messages? if not, the only thought I have on this is that maybe PM has a limit as to how many BCC's it can take and you have gone past that limit and the overflow is causing a bug? quickest solution I could think of is to make groups which contain 1,000 names and not more (so currently you would have 2 groups, 1 with 1,000 and one with 300) and then send the identical message to each group. hope this makes sense. just in case you are not somebody of many backups, hiccups like this mean orange alarm to at least now ensure you backup your address-book (and database would be a good idea too, and all your pref settings... you know, just in case). ---marlyse former message(s) quotes: - I use PM 5.5.3 on a MacBook Pro (2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo) with Tiger 10.4.9 and with 1 GB Ram. For years I've run an opt-in-only list, sending each message to myself with the members listed as BCCs. Gradually the list has grown and now I send several messages a day (news items, etc.) to the 1,300 members. Twice in the last 2 days there has been a problem when I send messages (previously no problems at all, and so far, the problem has occurred only once each day while the day's other messages are sent OK). The problem is that although I send each message to myself with the members listed as BCCs, in the 2 problematic instances, ALL of the BCCs showed up in the headers, causing some of the receiving servers to reject the post but the other members received the messages with all names and email addresses revealed. PLEASE HELP! As you can imagine, this is a real problem for me. I would *greatly* appreciate suggestions about what is going wrong and how I might fix the problem. Thanks! Ken
Re: bcc not consistently working
was there ANYTHING special about these 2 messages? if not, the only thought I have on this is that maybe PM has a limit as to how many BCC's it can take and you have gone past that limit and the overflow is causing a bug? quickest solution I could think of is to make groups which contain 1,000 names and not more (so currently you would have 2 groups, 1 with 1,000 and one with 300) and then send the identical message to each group. hope this makes sense. just in case you are not somebody of many backups, hiccups like this mean orange alarm to at least now ensure you backup your address-book (and database would be a good idea too, and all your pref settings... you know, just in case). ---marlyse former message(s) quotes: - I use PM 5.5.3 on a MacBook Pro (2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo) with Tiger 10.4.9 and with 1 GB Ram. For years I've run an opt-in-only list, sending each message to myself with the members listed as BCCs. Gradually the list has grown and now I send several messages a day (news items, etc.) to the 1,300 members. That's a lot of BCC's. A lot of the new SPAM filters will also trigger with this many BCC recipients. I would check with the server admin of your ISP or the person in charge of your network and make sure they don't enforce any limits on BCC recipients. Also if you're starting to get to this limit, it might be time to start thinking about some sort of listserver instead of BCC'ing folks. Wayne -- No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. - Theodore Roosevelt
