Bulk email

justintime2001 · 7 May 2012 at 13:06

Hi Folks,

Outlook only allows me to send 20 emails at one time. If I have a group of 30 or so people is there a way of sending these all at once?

justintime2001 · 7 May 2012 at 13:54

m4rkw7 said:
What sort of email connection have you got going in to Outlook? I don't think it's Outlook doing the limiting.

Im not 100% sure what you mean to be honest. I am with O2 for my broadband

justintime2001 · 7 May 2012 at 14:42

Dj_Jestar said:
What are you using to send these emails? Are you programmatically sending them with Outlook?

Yes, I made a group with 25 email addresses in Outlook and the last 5 were returned undeliverable, it said something about exceeding quota.

justintime2001 · 7 May 2012 at 15:19

MarcLister said:
Could it be the server is setting a limit? I work in a school and I sometimes have to send emails to all staff, which is over 50 people, and that never fails. My colleagues in the office send out a Friday memo with info about the following week's events, again to all staff and there's no problems. The only times I get any error messages is if a person's email address has changed and the old one is now unavailable which is a cue for me to remove it from the list.

Thats a good point, I'll ask the question of my providers, thanks.

justintime2001 · 7 May 2012 at 18:37

m4rkw7 said:
What version of Outlook are you using? Go to tools > options > email accounts and see how it's set up. It's probably POP3, are you using an O2 email address?

A copy / paste of the bounce back email will also help.

I am using the Outlook that came with my Office Professional 2010. Yes it is pop3 and an O2 email address. Like an idiot I have already deleted the bounce back message.
Out of 25 emails it only delivered 20. When I send the bounced 5 as a group on their own they went fine. Cheers.

justintime2001 · 7 May 2012 at 20:14

m4rkw7 said:
It should be in your deleted items folder but I'd say the problem is with O2 limiting the amount of recipients to prevent spam rather than Outlook.

Thanks m4rkw7, I will ring O2 in the morning. I auto empty my deleted items folder every time Outlook closes. This has proved to be not such a good idea after all

justintime2001 · 10 May 2012 at 10:12

I wasn't aware that I could use a service like mailchimp but I wil investigate this option, thank you.

justintime2001 · 14 May 2012 at 01:04

All sorted now thanks. O2 limit is 50 emails at a time and I can now send 700 per hour via my web host (Vidahost) not that I will ever need too :eek: