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Plusnet e-mail bulk sending problem

Ikarus

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Posted March 5, 2013 at 10:21AM

A colleague with Plusnet as his ISP cannot send bulk mail. Neither can he reply to all addressees in a bulk mail he has received. He has tried copy and paste but this does not work either. He needs this ability to send to up to 70 addressees at any one time. Is there a way of doing this with Plusnet or are there restrictions placed on the number of addressees in any one mail?

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Woolwell

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Posted March 5, 2013 at 10:31AM

Many ISP's have this restriction created because of spammers. There are ways around it. You'll need to wait for others to advise.

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Ian in Northampton

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Posted March 5, 2013 at 11:48AM

This from here:

  1. Is there a limit to the number of recipients of an email?

No, but to try and reduce the impact of 'spam' email we use a process known as 'tarpitting'. This allows us to offer fast delivery of email while relieving the strain on our email server by applying slight delays to the delivery of email if you are sending a lot of emails or you are sending emails to a lot of recipients. Most users will not notice any kind of slowdown in mail delivery due to the tarpitting process. More about 'tarpitting'.

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Ikarus

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Posted March 6, 2013 at 9:44AM

Thanks for the replies. However, the question still remains, why is it not possible for my colleague to copy a bulk mail list into his address panel? Any further suggestions, please?

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wiz-king

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Posted March 6, 2013 at 1:48PM

What email client is he using? Or is he using webmail?

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Ikarus

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Posted March 7, 2013 at 10:37AM

wiz-king I am told they use the "standard Plusnet" e-mail - they are not particularly tech savvy! I assume that Plusnet is a webmail service.

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Ian in Northampton

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Posted March 7, 2013 at 10:57AM

Ikarus: yes, it is, although I've rarely used it directly. All my email downloads to my Outlook account.

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