452 Error: too many recipients

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Hi

We keep getting this error with a list of failed addresses.
Seems to be system generated and not from my isp server.
Only have a max of ten addresses on the list and it always used to work.
In some cases the recipiants report that they still got the message.

Anyone help?
 
Mike said:
Hi

We keep getting this error with a list of failed addresses.
Seems to be system generated and not from my isp server.
Only have a max of ten addresses on the list and it always used to work.
In some cases the recipiants report that they still got the message.

Anyone help?
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The official definition of SMTP Reply Code 452 is "Requested action not
taken; insufficient system storage". Note that this is not the same as the
often seen error 552, "Requested mail action aborted; exceeded storage
allocation".

Are you sending mail through a company mail server? If so, it is possible
that it was recently re-configured to limit the number of recipients; as a
spam-fighting measure, many ISP's (and privately operated mail servers)
limit the number of addresses to which a single email can be sent.

Carmine Castiglia
http://www.infosystemspro.com
PalmOS apps for engineers and machinists
 
Hi

No, its via the Orange ISP that we have been with for some years now.
It seems to come in instantly.
I do not think its from the server due to the speed it comes in.
Its there after the mail has been sent.

I feel it coming from within Outlook!

Mike
 
Mike said:
Hi

No, its via the Orange ISP that we have been with for some years now.
It seems to come in instantly.
I do not think its from the server due to the speed it comes in.
Its there after the mail has been sent.

I feel it coming from within Outlook!

Mike
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No, it's coming from Orange.net and, if this is truly new, you need to
contact them to see if they have recently changed policy regarding multiple
recipients and/or large attachments. You see the error message instantly
due to the way SMTP mail works, which goes something like this:

You: Knock, knock (on the SMTP provider's door)
SMTP server: Hello (actually, "HELO"), who is there?
You: "EHLO", It's me, Mike on the south coast of the UK.
SMTP: Who is your mail from?
You: I told you, Mike on the south coast of the UK.
SMTP: Who is the mail going to?
You: John
SMTP: Send me the data or additional recipients
You: Mary
SMTP: Send me the data or additional recipients
You: Fred
SMTP: Send me the data or additional recipients
You: Paul
SMTP: Send me the data or additional recipients
You: Peter
SMTP: Whoa! Stop there, you've hit my acceptable limit for recipients!
SMTP: Send data now
You: Data.....
SMTP: Bye.

Your mail software signs off and already knows that a problem was
encountered, hence it displays the error message immediately.

Carmine Castiglia

PS: Regarding "EHLO", I wasn't trying to be cute and give you a British
accent; that is the actual required response to "HELO".
 
Hi
That's a great answer but how can you overcome this?
I have to send emails to far more than ten recipiants and always get the
same answer.
I have tried using different email addresses to send from so I presume it is
my Orange provider?
Cheers
Peter
 
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