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  1. #1
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    RaQ3 breaks at 512 outgoing emails.

    Every now and then I need to send out 2000 or so emails at one time, and I have noticed that Outlook Express will send 512 messages with no problem, but something breaks at 513 and my email program (Outlook Express 6) is unable to send all the others. Upon the next send and receive it will happily send the first 512 again, then break, and so on.

    Why does it do this, and how can I cure the problem?
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  2. #2
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    Basically Outlook Express was never designed to handle that level of (ab)use.
    The simplest solution would be to install a server-based bulkmailer. There are quite a few available that can easily handle that kind of load and will send out your mail in batches.
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    Thanks blacknight. Seeing as the same problem occurs whether using Outlook Express and Outlook I thought it must be my RaQ. So if it's my email client I'd better find another one just for sending my notices.
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    I think you misunderstood my answer.

    You obviously run some kind of list, so you should run something directly on the server IMHO, rather than trying to overload a desktop client.
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    What Blacknight ment is that you should use a serverside mailinglist like majordomo or something, this way you will be able to send loads of mail without a crash at 512 emails or whatsoever. I used to send mail with majordomo to over 3000 adresses (no I'm not a whell know spammer) in one go and never had that kind of problems in my old raq3.

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    I don't think I can use a server side mailing list on my RaQ without killing the RaQ. My entire client list is about 120,000 people, and I have to filter it and sort it each time to extract the exact people I need to contact. I have built quite a comprehensive collection of Macros and Access Queries to do this over the years, so it would be a major job to change the way it's done.

    However, I can easily export those details to a text file for another mailer instead of outlook express to use after I have doen all my sorting/filtering.

    Am i correct in assuming the server side mail solutions are not very versatile?
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    keep your spam out of my box

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    Originally posted by wilkins
    keep your spam out of my box
    As I said before, this is my client list. I have been using it since 1999 and despite sending regular notices out to my clients only 2 people have ever yelled "spam", and that was because they forgot who I was, and apologized afterwards. I do not want to enter into a "spam" debate and that isn't what this thread is about. Any further spammy type comments will be ignored.
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  9. #9
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    Unless they are all personalized, why not set up a mailing list on the RAQ?

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    There are a number of server-side emailing programs that allow you to 'dump' hundreds of addresses into. Personally I use Mojo :
    http://mojo.skazat.com/
    which allows you to send both plain and html mails. It's free, feature packed and anti-spam... hope this helps

    wilkins : If you cannot make an intelligent contribution, why make one at all?
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    Originally posted by blacknight
    wilkins : If you cannot make an intelligent contribution, why make one at all?
    Perhaps "Posts : 5" says it all.

    Many thanks for all your advice guys, I am now investigating a more sensible solution than the one I am currently using.
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    Originally posted by CmptrWz
    Unless they are all personalized, why not set up a mailing list on the RAQ?
    Quite a percentage of them are personalized. In fact, they all are to one degree or another. Some of them have the recipients first name, but they all have a "your email address, email@address.com , is on our list because...." just so people don't forget why I'm sending them something in the first place.

    I am currently using a Word mail merge to email feature (which I LOVE by the way!).
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    Hy,

    perhaps MailKing is a tool you would like to look at. A client of us uses this software to distribute many personalized mails to his clients.

    http://www.messagemedia.co.nz/mailking.htm

    Greetings
    Oliver

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    Thanks Oliver. I just downloaded the trial version.
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