[DUG] Problems with TIdsmtp

[Grant Brown]

Calm done a peg or two, I was just pulling your leg mate,

Regards
GB


Alister Christie wrote:
> It's mostly for sending newsletters and stuff, besides most of our 
> users are emailing less than a few hundred clients at a time, most of 
> which will have been talked to personally or have requested to be on 
> the database - which hardly counts as spam.
>
> Alister Christie
> Computers for People
> Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266
> http://www.salespartner.co.nz
> PO Box 13085
> Johnsonville
> Wellington
>
>
> Grant Brown wrote:
>>  > 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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