Mail server does not recognize my recipients?

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Mail server does not recognize my recipients?

The other day I imported the vCards from the address book on my iMac to the one on my MacBook Pro. Then I recreated the group I always used on the iMac to send pictures of my kids. There are 114 contacts in that group.

Now, when I try to send email to that group from the MacBook, I get the following error:

The server "smtp.mac.com" did not recognize the following recipients:

And then it lists a bunch of the addresses.

But when I try to send an email to those recipients individually it works fine. Only when I attempt to send mail to a big group does it give me this error. I never had this problem on the iMac.

Any suggestions?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Apr 11, 2008 7:46 AM

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Answer 1

May 6, 2008 6:12 PM in response to queenbee

I'm having this exact same problem. I can't seem to find any answer as to why it is doing this.

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Answer 2

Jun 24, 2008 9:49 AM in response to queenbee

Same problem here. What gives? Is there a limit to how many people you can send an e-mail?

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Answer 3

LarryHN

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Jun 24, 2008 10:16 AM in response to James Kurtz III

Is there a limit to how many people you can send an e-mail?

Not in mail - possibly your ISP has such a limit

LN

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Answer 4

LarryHN

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Jun 24, 2008 10:21 AM in response to queenbee

The server "smtp.mac.com" did not recognize the following recipients:

And then it lists a bunch of the addresses.

I've not had this problem recently - and I never use .mac for large distribution lists - but in the past when I did it always turned out to be user error - I had a leading space or some other address formation error on my part as I made the mail list - in some cases it was very subtle and it took a while to see what I had done -- look very closely at the ones that do not work (I assume that some are working and some are not) - you probably will find the problem

Good Luck

LN

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Answer 5

Jun 24, 2008 10:50 AM in response to LarryHN

Thank you for your prompt response. There must be a limit on my webhost or isp because breaking the list down to fewer than 50 worked fine. Thanks again!

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