[DUG] Problems with TIdsmtp

[Grant Brown]

 > We have an application that sends out emails to large numbers of 
people (up to thousands) via BCC.

Is this another way to say you spam them ???  =-O

Regards
GB


Alister Christie wrote:
> I've been having problems with xtras smtp servers.  We have an 
> application that sends out emails to large numbers of people (up to 
> thousands) via BCC.  The problem occurs when sending email via xtras 
> smtp servers, as they reject any recipient (indy raises an exception) 
> that is not a valid xtra customer (NotAValidXtraCustomer at xtra.co.nz 
> for instance).  This wasn't a problem when using indy 9 as I would 
> just remove the person from the BCC list and resend the email - nice 
> and transparant to the user.  However since upgrading to indy 10, it 
> has started sending blank emails to every recipient up to the invalid 
> one.
>
> Has anyone else seen this problem?
>
> I have a number of solutions:
> 1) Go back to indy 9 - I'd rather not do this as I upgraded to indy 10 
> to solve a different problem (although this one is much bigger).
> 2) Send a seperate email to each person in the BCC list (this could be 
> slow if sending to 500 people - although I already have to break up 
> the email anyway as xtra have a limit of 100 recipients and paradise 
> have a limit of 50)
>
> Any Ideas or Suggestions?
>
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