Can't send email with multiple recipients

mrochester · 24 Apr 2006 at 17:08

I'm trying to send an invitation email to around 150 recipients using my Blueyonder broadband connection and Outlook. I sent a single test email to another address which worked perfectly, but when I try to send this email to either all 150, 50 or just 10 people at the same time, it simply will not send (and the error I get back is that the SMTP server has timed out). I had absolutely no problem sending an email inviting all of these people to last years event in one go. Can anyone enlighten me as to what the heck is going on? I can understand that Blueyonder might simply be trying to prevent their accounts being used for spam, but not being able to send an email to just 10 people leads me to believe that it isn't some imposed limit that is causing the problem.

Any ideas, this email has to be sent today?

Cheers,

Michael.

FunkyT · 24 Apr 2006 at 20:15

mrochester said:
I'm trying to send an invitation email to around 150 recipients using my Blueyonder broadband connection and Outlook. I sent a single test email to another address which worked perfectly, but when I try to send this email to either all 150, 50 or just 10 people at the same time, it simply will not send (and the error I get back is that the SMTP server has timed out). I had absolutely no problem sending an email inviting all of these people to last years event in one go. Can anyone enlighten me as to what the heck is going on? I can understand that Blueyonder might simply be trying to prevent their accounts being used for spam, but not being able to send an email to just 10 people leads me to believe that it isn't some imposed limit that is causing the problem.

Any ideas, this email has to be sent today?

Cheers,

Michael.

Maybe you could send the email via another SMTP server? If you've got a Yahoo or Gmail account this is easily achieved.

mrochester · 24 Apr 2006 at 21:19

Maybe you could send the email via another SMTP server? If you've got a Yahoo or Gmail account this is easily achieved.

I eventually managed to send all the emails. After a while, I tried sending 20 at once again, and it worked. I managed to do this a few times, but it eventually stopped working again. I went away and came back about an hour later, and it started working again in blocks of 20. Seems the Blueyonder SMTP server simply couldn't cope.

Uhtred · 24 Apr 2006 at 22:54

sometimes isps put a limit on it so people can't spam. 20 sounds very low though.

FunkyT · 25 Apr 2006 at 08:04

Judging by the comments from the OP, it sounds like a temporary problem with Blueyonder.