Can I send an email with 300 bcc copies from my iclud.com email account

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On behalf of my pensioners Association I need to send a monthly information email with 300 bcc copies to the members. Am I allowed to do this from my personal icloud email account?


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Jan Erik Frithjofsen

null-OTHER, Windows 10, icloud email account

Posted on Nov 16, 2016 3:36 AM

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Posted on Nov 17, 2016 2:39 AM

Hello and welcome to Apple Support Communities, Janerik49.
If I understand your post correctly, you'd like to find out if you can Bcc 300 people in one email from your iCloud email account. I can understand wanting to send once and be done. I'm happy to help you get more information about this.
This article shows the limits of an iCloud account:
Mailbox size and message sending limits in iCloud
This section shows the limit on recipients per message:

Limits on sending messages

There are several safeguards in place to make sure that only iCloud members can send messages using iCloud. One of these safeguards includes reasonable limits on:

  • The total number of messages you can send each day (200 messages)
  • The number of recipients you can message each day (1000 recipients)
  • The maximum number of recipients per message (100 recipients)
  • The size of incoming and outgoing messages (20MB, up to 5GB with Mail Drop turned on)

Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities. Take care.

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Nov 17, 2016 2:39 AM in response to Janerik49

Hello and welcome to Apple Support Communities, Janerik49.
If I understand your post correctly, you'd like to find out if you can Bcc 300 people in one email from your iCloud email account. I can understand wanting to send once and be done. I'm happy to help you get more information about this.
This article shows the limits of an iCloud account:
Mailbox size and message sending limits in iCloud
This section shows the limit on recipients per message:

Limits on sending messages

There are several safeguards in place to make sure that only iCloud members can send messages using iCloud. One of these safeguards includes reasonable limits on:

  • The total number of messages you can send each day (200 messages)
  • The number of recipients you can message each day (1000 recipients)
  • The maximum number of recipients per message (100 recipients)
  • The size of incoming and outgoing messages (20MB, up to 5GB with Mail Drop turned on)

Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities. Take care.

Nov 17, 2016 10:11 AM in response to Janerik49

Hi Janerik49.

That's correct. You can send 3 messages in one day with 99 Bcc recipients with your iCloud email account.

If you ever did try to send something that didn't meet the guidelines you'd see an error message like one of these:


When you exceed message sending limits, you might see the following alert messages depending on how you view iCloud Mail:

  • On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch: A copy has been placed in your Outbox. Sending the message failed because you exceeded your sending limit.
  • On your Mac: Cannot send message using the server iCloud.
  • On iCloud webmail: 550 5.7.1 membername@icloud.com: You have exceeded your daily sending limit. Please try again later.

Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities. Have a great day.

Nov 17, 2016 2:52 AM in response to chuck_3rd

Thank you very much! That seems to be the information I was looking for. So if I send one message to 99 recipients(in the bcc field) x three times in one day I will not violate any of these rules ? If my understanding is correct, this will amount to 3 messages and 297 recipients (Then it will be one month until next time I need to do the same thing).

Br

Jan Erik Frithjofsen

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