[DUG] Problems with TIdsmtp

[Alister Christie]

No worries, I wasn't being hostile (there were nowhere enough f*** words 
and/or yo mamma insults to constitute that).

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:
> 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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